
“Should we hire a hacker?” It may be tired but it is a question that is persistently asked in the security industry, because I guess we don’t feel we have answered it satisfactorily yet, and there is an…
“Should we hire a hacker?” It may be tired but it is a question that is persistently asked in the security industry, because I guess we don’t feel we have answered it satisfactorily yet, and there is an…
A while ago on LinkedIn I posted the following riddle and its answer. It got lots of interaction because EVERYONE when they put their minds to it, likes to think of themselves as a Social Engineer, at least some…
A while ago, I was speaking at a conference in the north of England. I wasn’t especially enamoured of the topic and was doing it as a favour for the organiser who was an old friend. I wasn’t “on” until…
A couple of years ago at a conference in Texas I heard the phrase “in the weeds.” It means being in the sort of situation where you get so emerged in the details “the weeds” that it is hard…
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2015/03/17/spotting-the-threat-within/
http://www.itsecurityguru.org/2015/03/16/attacking-from-the-outside/
I don’t know if the phrase “the bigger they come, the harder they fall” was around when Shakespeare was alive but it applies to his tragic heroes across the board. If we look at his BIG FOUR, Hamlet, Macbeth,…
Social engineers come in many different flavours, from the disgruntled ex-employee who wants to disrupt his former employers activities, to the criminal who is looking for financial gain, to the activist who has an axe to grind with an…