Blog Posts Tagged with "Psychology"
Sure, I'll be Your Unicorn
January 21, 2013 Added by:Wendy Nather
I was fascinated to read about the last year cancellation of the British Ruby conference due to the arguments that the speaker lineup lacked diversity. Other people have their own opinions on why we have this problem and what we should do about it...
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Reflected Glory: Revealing one of my self-created social engineering tricks
December 11, 2012 Added by:Will Tarkington
What is reflected glory? To do this trick you need someone with a high social status that you can be associated with. It doesn’t have to be a close association just one that is known. You then simply state with authority your own opinion once the relationship has been recently established...
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The Female Social Lever
November 16, 2012 Added by:Will Tarkington
In my ongoing expose on Social Engineering techniques I bring to you one of my favorites I call “The Female Social Lever.” A technique that takes advantage of social geometry and complex female group hierarchy. For this example we are going to use a party because it is where I developed this particular technique...
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I lost my theory of mind… or Where my mind at?
November 13, 2012 Added by:Will Tarkington
Without the theory of mind everything that social engineers do or attempt to do would fail. The theory of mind is basically one’s ability to differentiate perspectives. From perspective comes intention, from intention comes reaction, and from reaction comes reward (or failure)...
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Psychopathy Tweets: Too Many Statistics, Not Enough Proof of Concept
August 01, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
What I came out with, after many slides of numbers, was “nope not really”, which I pretty much had thought before. There are just too many variables to this type of venture and you would need to have a trained psychoanalyst to talk to the individual to determine whether or not they are a true psychopath...
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Detecting Psychopathy via Tweets? A Flawed Premise...
July 25, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
It seems to me that more and more we are being collectively mined not only for our habits, but now our emotions as well as our psychological makeups. All of this could potentially be collated from numerous sources. I doubt we will ever be able to contextualize the human psyche just from internet datum…
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The Biggest Attack Surface is US
May 30, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
As technologies advance and the human nature side of things continues to allow for strides in security as well as the inevitable setbacks, you will become the ultimate target of the easy score for data that could lead to compromise. After all, what do you think the real persistent threats rely on? Human nature...
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Phishing with PDF's and Why it Works
May 02, 2012 Added by:f8lerror
During many penetration tests the need to social engineer a target may be required. Let’s talk about something that completely relies on the user being conned into following the attackers instructions. The scenario is simple send the user a PDF form and have them submit the form...
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Mind Control Security Awareness
April 03, 2012 Added by:Pete Herzog
ISECOM's SmarterSaferBetter seminar teaches you to actively keep on re-filtering. Doing it right by being alerted to prompts is the best way to keep your guard up, because actively filtering your world is truly exhausting. And being tired is when we make security mistakes...
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Psychology of Information Security - The God Complex
January 27, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
I'm willing to bet that if you went down the list of all the security policies that your organization has, there would be at least a few that you break based on the 'this doesn't apply to me, I know better' principle. This is also know in psychology as the "God Complex"...
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Anonymous: Insidiae, Psychologia, Et Liber Pericula
September 20, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
Collectively, groups like Anonymous can manifest a sociopathic or psychopathic potential in certain circumstances. In the case of the actions of Anonymous actors online in their dialogues and statements, they manifest key features of what is considered psychopathic behaviors...
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The Psychology of “Neo Jihad” Radicalization
September 11, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
The AQ core will continue to reach out to the lonely and dispossessed to radicalize the newcomers as well as use the technologies we have created (privacy/hacking utilities included) to effect the outcomes they desire and we need to be able to counter them...
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Identity Theft Has Long Lasting Psychological Effects
August 19, 2011 Added by:Robert Siciliano
The lack of specifics makes it difficult for victims to attain any closure and move forward. “No matter how well they monitor their financial records for the rest of their lives, they may still feel vulnerable,” Van Vliet says...
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Similarities Between Riots and Modern Internet Hacktivism
August 14, 2011 Added by:Lenny Zeltser
To understand riots, consider the importance of de-individuation of the mob's participants, the importance of instigating events and the role of the "entrepreneur" in starting the chain reaction of a riot. There are parallels to the dynamics of modern Internet hacktivism...
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Weaponizing Cyberpsychology and Subverting Cybervetting
August 01, 2011 Added by:Rafal Los
In a talk to be shared for the first time at DEF CON 19, members from the UK based volunteer organization the OnlinePrivacyFoundation.org will share the results of their research on examining to what extent it is possible to determine someone’s personality through their Facebook activity...
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Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
March 16, 2011 Added by:Ben Rothke
Far too many people think that information security and data protection is simply about running tools, and too many technology books focus on the hardware and software elements, completely ignoring the human element. The social engineer can then use that gap to their advantage...
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