"Many good books to help learn hypnosis.
Check out Reality is Plastic by Anthony Jaquin."
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Reality Bending … Online Hypnosis Training with James Brown
Posted July 24, 2016 by Dale Pearson
Subscribers and regular visitors to the blog will know I am a fan of hypnosis, and like most things I am passionate for I am always on the look out to discover new ways of doing things, gaining perspective of others and generally a healthy thirst for knowledge. You will of noticed I have purchased […]
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Secrets of PickPocketing … Online Training with The Professional Opportunist
Posted March 11, 2016 by Dale Pearson
Back in October 2012 I attended a Pickpocket Training Day with Professional Opportunist James Brown, and I blogged about it on this site here. It was a great session and many people have asked me about it, but not everyone has the time to travel, or may have logistical and financial constraints based on geographical […]
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Faking It To Make It … Fake Data Generation Recommendations List
Posted July 17, 2015 by Dale Pearson
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 be used in the testing world, and if like me you have horror […]
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91% Of All Attacks Attributable to Spear Phishing … Infograph by ProofPoint
Posted December 11, 2013 by Dale Pearson
I just received an email from Proofpoint, and its another one of their great Infographs. This is a great Infograph re-enforcing the fact that it only takes a single breach for the cost to be significant. Not surprisingly the information shows that 91% of All Attacks have some form of phishing attribution, and 95% of […]
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Wasting Time With The PC Wizard Scammers … Fixing The Problems You Never Knew You Had
Posted November 20, 2013 by Dale Pearson
So its a cold Monday morning in November 2013 and the phone rings, who could this be? Sadly its not someone calling me to tell me there are millions of pounds to be had if I can just send some money over, instead it turns out I have computer issues, but the friendly certified Microsoft […]
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Just Called To Say … Spoofed Your Caller ID
The aim of this post is to share tools for Social Engineers to include vishing in you engagements, and to make the rest of the world aware of just how simple and easy it is to Spoof someones Caller ID, so you can increase your ...
The Risks of Posting in Social Networks … By Trend Micro
I found this awesome Infograph put together by Trend Micro on the Risks o Posting in Social Networks. I cant remember exactly where I found it now but I saved the image so I am posting it here. If you know where it came from fe...
Oh What’s Occurring??
Good morning, afternoon, evening and all that. I have had a couple of emails from more recent readers of the blog saying good things about the content, but also the more recent lack of new stuff. So with that in mind I thought ...
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...
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. ...
