Subliminal Hacking
The Art and Science of Social Engineering


 
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Misdirection

Faking It To Make It … Fake Data Generation Recommendations List

Depending on your history and how you got into InfoSec you may or may not of been exposed to the world of developer testing, if you did I am sure you have many unhappy memories of arguing why “real” data should not ...
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Red Teaming

Red Team Hiring – Are You The One?

Despite the madness that is Covid-19, I have been in the fortunate position to be hiring Red Teamers to join the amazing team I have the pleasure to work with. When hiring, people regularly reach out to me asking what I am look...
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How-To

How To Collaborate With Maltego … Rolling Your Own XMPP Server

* I started this post in Feb 2014 but it took me a while to actually finish it 🙁 Aside from mentioning Maltego in my recommended OSINT Tools List, I have never gone into any detail about this awesome tool from Paterva. The m...
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Body Language

Setting your motivation… Mind Scripts

Getting into character is an important part of being successful on a social engineering engagement. You may be physically impersonating a sales guy, engineer, employee, or you may be carrying out your fiendish work remotely gat...
by Dale Pearson
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Hypnosis

Social Engineering Zombies… Getting people playing your game

In the wonderful world of InfoSec we often talk about zombies, and the associated botnet zombie army. With our army of machines we can do our evil bidding, and wreak havoc upon the unexpected users of the Interwebs. So what has...
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