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Socially Engineered – Humans
In This Issue: "Socially Engineered —Humans". From Fortune 500 companies, to kids and retirees, and everyone in between, we are all potential targets of social engineers. In this newsletter we examine social ...
Overcome the Impostor Syndrome
Have you ever felt like you don’t deserve to be where you are professionally? Studies show that an estimated 70% of people have experienced Impostor Syndrome at one time in their life ...
Is It Legit to Use Fear as Part of My Pretext?
One question I get asked often is, “Chris, isn’t it legit to use fear as part of my pretext in a social engineering exercise? I mean, after all, the bad guys are ...
Scaring People into Supporting Backdoors
Back in 1998, Tim May warned us of the "Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse": "terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers." I tended to cast it slightly differently. This is me from ...
What Happened to Cyber 9/11?
A recent article in the Atlantic asks why we haven't seen a"cyber 9/11" in the past fifteen or so years. (I, too, remember the increasingly frantic and fearful warnings of a "cyber ...
John Mueller and Mark Stewart on the Risks of Terrorism
Another excellent paper by the Mueller/Stewart team: "Terrorism and Bathtubs: Comparing and Assessing the Risks": Abstract: The likelihood that anyone outside a war zone will be killed by an Islamist extremist terrorist ...
Free Yourself from FUD
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) hold powerful influence over humans. Fear itself is a deeply powerful emotion that causes specific reactions in the brain, and uncertainty and doubt are feelings that manipulate ...
