Social Engineering: How to Use Persuasion to Compromise a Human Target

Social engineering makes headlines because human behavior is often the weakest link of even well-defended targets. Automated social engineering tools can help reclusive hackers touch these techniques, but the study of how to hack human interactions in person is often ignored. Today, we will examine how to use subtle, hard to detect persuasion techniques to compromise a human target. Social Engineering Today Where have all the great conmen gone? The clever ones who would get people excited about splitting a fake winning lottery ticket and then let the victim gleefully drive to an ATM to stuff... more

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