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- If you like this sort of thing, Johnny Long wrote an interesting book called No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing (http://www.amazon.com/No-Tech-Hacking-Engineering-Dumpster/d...).
- Johnny Long wrote an interesting book called No-tech hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing that might interest you.
- She did great on that social engineering attack. The crying baby on YouTube was a nice touch. The overall segment illustrates many aspects of psychological manipulation that can be used to successfully con a support person. A believable scenario, something people might sympathize with, a sense of urgency, further but brief engagement with questions/answers, and gratitude for their participation.
This stuff was always tricky to train people to defend against. I need to update my links to good presentations on this subject for attack and especially defensive training for employees. So, what do you people have to go in that collection?
Note: OP video led to autoplay of No Tech Hacking by Johnny Long. I recall someone recommending me read the book by same name. So, nice accidental reminder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4kfsxF8Tio
Note 2: Bejtlich's comment on NTH on Amazon reminded me that we should probably always list Mitnick's Art of Deception and Abignale's Art of the Steal in these threads for useful examples they had. They each extracted much mileage out of social engineering.
