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Managing Your Vishing Defenses at Home
Social-Engineer | | Home, pentesting, Phishing, Protect Yourself, SE, security, social engineering, vishing, work from home
During the past 6 years at Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM) we’ve made over 45,000 calls to companies all over the world. Banks, startups, tech firms, pharmaceutical companies, defense contractors, and many other organizations ...
Overcome the Impostor Syndrome
Social-Engineer | | billy boatright, fear, Fraud, Impostor syndrome, perfectionist, Psychological principles, reframe, SE, social engineer
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 ...
My First Onsite Social Engineering Engagement: Pretenders, Assemble!
Colin Hadnagy explains how valuable lessons he's learned over the past 5 years with Social-Engineer LLC (SECOM) were made real, very real in his first onsite social engineering engagement. Now that you’re ...
My First Pen-Testing Onsite Social Engineering Engagement
Karen Bender | | onsite social engineering engagement, pentesting, SE, shelby daco, social engineering
Shelby Dacko recently participated in her first pen-testing onsite social engineering engagement. In the 3rd installment of our 4-part series, Shelby shares key lessons she learned from her team and advice so ...
Breaking in for NOOBZ!: Social Engineering Onsite Infiltration
Karen Bender | | Curt Klump, OSINT, pentesting, SE, social engineering, Social Engineering Onsite Infiltration
Curt Klump found himself standing in a server closet in a building’s network operations center (NOC), with an official employee escort. This is just one of the highlights of his first social ...
An Inside Look at a Week in the Life of a Social Engineer
Social-Engineer | | An Inside Look at a Week in the Life of a Social Engineer, OSINT, pentest, pentesting, Pretexting, SE
Recently, we sent 4 of our employees on an on-site social engineering engagement. We asked them to blog about their experience, tips and tricks, and lessons that they learned with our readers ...
Video: Hacking Humans
Learn from Some of the World’s Most Interesting Human Hackers! Video and Slide Deck from EH-Net Live! October 2019 Long before the discovery of electricity, the advancement of our glorious technological achievements, ...
We are supporting Coalfire
If you haven’t read the post from Coalfire’s CEO, Tom McAndrew, you should. It is here: https://www.coalfire.com/News-and-Events/Press-Releases/Coalfire-CEO-Tom-McAndrew-statement TechRepublic’s report tells us that in 2019 so far, there is a 54% increase in ...
Webinar: Hacking Humans
Join Some of the World’s Most Interesting Human Hackers! The Human Hacking Conference, presented by the creators of DEF CON’s Social Engineering Village, brings together the leading experts in all facets of ...
The Verizon DBIR — The C-Suite is Under Attack
Social-Engineer | | bec, business email compromise, c-level executives, cybercriminals, PHaaS, Phishing, Phishing as a Service, SE, SERA, social engineer, stolen credentials, Strengthen Your Enterprise's Defenses, The 2019 Verizon DBIR — The C-Suite is Under Attack, The C-Suite is Under Attack, The Social Engineering Risk Assessment, vishing
According to The Verizon 2019 DBIR, the C-Suite is the primary target of criminals. Find out why, and what you can do to strengthen your enterprise's defenses, in our June blog, "The ...