Subliminal Hacking
The Art and Science of Social Engineering


 
 

 
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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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

The Idiots That Get Socially Engineered

We are all familiar with Social Engineering, we experience it every day, its covered in the media and is utilised in various different contexts. However, a common theme that I read about, but also have people talk to me about i...
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Influence

Now you see it, now you dont … Change Blindness

Change blindness is an interesting natural phenomena every human experiences on a pretty regular basis, but what is it exactly? Essentially its our inability to spot obvious changes that occur around us. There has been a fair...
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NLP

NLP for Social Engineers – Mike Murray

Not long after kicking off Head Hacker, I got speaking to Mike Murray. I am sure many of you will be familiar with his thoughts and work in the SE space. Well he made me aware of a recent project he has also kicked of which is ...
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