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72 days ago by quizwedge

Social engineering (also known as pretexting) is playing on human nature to trick someone into giving you information. Wired has up an old, but still useful article on how to protect yourself. Another good resource is Kevin Mitnick's book The Art of Deception. It provides information, but using situ ...

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153 days ago by Abram

Contrary to popular belief, “hacking” is often not about getting root access to a computer by navigating through firewalls and exploiting operating system bugs, etc…no, it’s often a matter of “social engineering.” Social engineering is a process whereby hackers gain passwords and other credentials f ...

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189 days ago by admin

Caller ID Spoofing Caller ID Spoofing has been around since the advent of Caller ID itself. In its simplest form Spoofing is the ability for a caller hide their identity by appearing to calling from a different or trusted number. One of the earliest uses of this tactic was for national sales teams t ...

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197 days ago by admin

Should I Worry about Pretexting? Pretexting is when someone intentionally falsifies their own identity or lies about something in order to get information out of YOU! This is easily done over the phone by someone who has put a lot of time and effort into figuring out how to get you, or any target, t ...

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