Subliminal Hacking
The Art and Science of Social Engineering


 
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Social Compliance and Manipulation… The Art of Confidence

As human beings we are very good at making excuses, and always believing that some how we have it worse than the other guy. There is often that mentality that, its not we don’t want to do this or that, its just that ̷...
by Dale Pearson
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Body Talk… Pam and Her Five Sisters, its the Hands

If your a humbug like me you will be more than bored with the fact the shops have had the Christmas decorations up for far to long already, and be even more please to hear its 6 weeks till Christmas, Rock ‘n’ Roll. ...
by Dale Pearson
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Exploiting the Brain … The Power of Language

An experienced and effective social engineer has two main qualities. First of all they have the social part, they have the ability to blend in, build relationship, establish rapport, and make that unconscious connection. This t...
by Dale Pearson
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Body Talk.. Its torsotastic

This week we are going to look at body language again. In a previous post we looked at how the legs and feet have a lot to tell us, in this post we are going to uncover what the upper body can reveal to us. The torso is made up...
by Dale Pearson
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Social Engineering CTF… Showing the value of testing the human element

In Vegas this year (July 2010) there was an interesting contest going on, it was a social engineering capture the flag setup by the great guys at www.social-engineer.org. This was a great event, and it has attracted some media ...
by Dale Pearson
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