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The_Eccentric

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Why Social Engineering Works? and targets to exploit

« on: April 23, 2010, 07:26:13 AM »

Just asking the philosophical question "why" Social engineering works and types of targets to exploit using social engineering.

Linked to my site because it would would not take everything inside here.
Feedback would be appreciated

http://se-united.org/2010/04/why-social-engineering-works-part-1/


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pizza1337

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Re: Why Social Engineering Works? and targets to exploit

« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2010, 08:46:40 AM »

you finally registered, welcome to the forums.

good post too, people who are not familiar with SE will understand it too.


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dalepearson

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Re: Why Social Engineering Works? and targets to exploit

« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2010, 01:38:49 AM »

The_Eccentric,

Its a nice post mate, well done and thanks for sharing.
I will also add that an SE attack can also be a good way of helping a company really understand its critical systems and valuable assets, as the perspective is different.


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Re: Why Social Engineering Works? and targets to exploit

« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2010, 09:48:10 AM »

good read, very informative, at the bottom of the page it says "for real time discussion join us on IRC" when i tried to join it tells me that its "invite only", how might i request an invite?