Tag: social engineering
Social Engineering as a Technical Tool
Chris Hadnagy EthicalHacker When we speak about social engineering the normal conversation steers away from the technical and more to the psychological. This month we are going to change it up a bit and steer head on into the technical arena for a discussion about penetration testing. There seems to always be a debate [...]
6 Real Hacker Attacks Straight Out of the Movies
Danny Vittore Cracked.com Hacker attacks: Hollywood thinks that computers run on black magic and hackers are wizards. In movies, computers can blow up houses, shut down highways, release plagues and make Matthew Lillard appealing to women. However, our collective groaning about how laughably unrealistic these movies are may have been premature, because sometimes the real [...]
Social Network Hacking Part 2 – Have You Been Infiltrated?
David Pace, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martins, Ron Kelson, Benjamin Gittins The Malta Independent Social Network Hacking Part 2 – Have You Been Infiltrated? The explosion of social networks and new user accounts in recent years is staggering. There are now over 1,000 social networking sites on the Internet, with Facebook currently being the largest, with [...]
Man Sentenced To 150 Days For Hacking Facebook Accounts of 13 Women
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer A 27 year old man from Woodbury, MN was sentenced to 150 days in the Washington County Jail after pleading guilty to hacking Facebook accounts of 13 women and stealing their identities. In March, Timothy P. Noirjean pleaded guilty to thirteen felony counts of electronic use of false [...]
