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Social Engineering

Social Engineering Doesn’t Feature In Your Security Testing Strategy … Doing It Wrong!

Security maturity is an interesting thing, and something I am often discussing with those I work with as well as those at various companies in a wide range of industry sectors. Specifically I am mostly interested in the maturit...
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Social Engineering

Human Phishing … Playing the Odds

Happy Easter everyone, I have some spare time so I thought I would put fingers to keyboard and put a blog post out I have had on my mind for the last month. Even though I plan to post every month, life with a little one and bus...
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Social Engineering

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 ...
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Body Language

Social Engineering… Is It Ethical??

When I speak to people (non Infosec passionate types) about the work and research I do around the content I post on Head Hacker, I normally get a few responses. Shock, Disgust and Intrigue. People are shocked because they are n...
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Social Engineering

Ethical Boundaries of Simulated Testing

Like most days social media is flowing with opinions, perspectives, ego and testosterone 🙂 The most recent discussions that have sparked my interest have been those around what is or in many cases isn’t considered to b...
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