The World of Social Engineering

Well my attention has been drawn to social engineering, and to be really honest its amazing, I’m currently reading “The Art Of Deception – Kevin D. Mitnick” and it shows you many of examples how social engineering is used and its really shocking that it really is that easy you have to be fast on your feet though keep the chatter going if your calling someone down the phone, but it really is quite scary how far social engineering can get you if you want some information, the book has brilliant stories in it check it out.

Social engineering well you must of heard of conning people will its basically that just incase you’re interested, now if you run some kind of company you need to realize the dangers of people, now let me guess you have firewalls anti-virus’ installed the lot, WHO CARES, yeah your protected from attacks from the internet, but what if someone asks you for your password?
“Hello this is ********”
“Oh hi can I have your password”
“NO!”
This isn’t what I mean not exactly that easy the social engineer will make up a load of crap about why they need someone’s password and you might even believe them.
Can you stop this?
Sure its called a company policy you tell people not to give out any information without you (the owner of the company) having agreed
So as long as you’ve read up on Social Engineering then you’re prepared for the worst.