Social Engineering???
Ok, my last text based post was about social engineering and the trickery of credit card companies. Normally, since we're not that famous, I don't get emails about out site's info. Since this got to the front page of Digg, this site has gotten a little more traffic and one of the things I've noticed is I've gotten a few emails. 2 to be exact. Both were responding to the credit card post. The first was talking about whether or not it's legal to post that on my blog and the other was a question "what is social engineering?" This amazed me...I thought social engineering was a pretty well known thing, but I guess not. The guy said he'd googled it and not gotten any decent working definitions so he asked me. My answer is as Follows:
Social engineering is the search for and use of knowledge. Knowledge is power and Social Engineering Experts know how to use it to hteir advantage. Normally the goal of social engineering is to gain access to something that you're not normally allowed to have access to. The most popular target of such uses of knowledge was AT&T when Kevin Mitnick used it. Today you hear of people stealing identities, credit card numbers, even phone card numbers. I can almost guarantee you that if yours was stolen, you in fact gave it to them personally. Social engineering can be used over the phone, online, or in person. There is no limits on social engineering as it is all encompassing.
Dumpster diving, which is going into the dumpster of a major company looking for information on how they use their technology IE. passwords, security settings, names, phone numbers, and lingo used in the workplace, has been consitered by some as social engineering but I don't believe it is, I believe it's simply collecting knowledge while social engineering is using the knowledge. So, I hope that answered your question.
OK, now for my actual post. Stegnos is a company that makes some decent internet tools. A Hacker Toolkit which give you a bunch of viruses and antiviruses on a cd that you can study as well as several random tools. Internet Anonym is a mass proxy program which also has built in a very nice format program which, just in case the cops come, will destroy everything you have and write over it 32 times. Good tools to just have around. And you've heard of a bootable version of linux such as Slax or KnoppixSTD, buw what about a bootable version of Windows? Yes thats right Bart's PE builder is a nice tool to where you can make your very own bootable windows xp cd that has your custom programs and plugins on it.
Also I would like to thank Ubuntu for sending so many copies of their OS for us to distribute. If you would like a copy of Ubuntu Linux which is a free and open source collection of programs as well as a open source os you can email me at Akiratima@gmail.com or you can go to the site and download a copy.
Thats all I got for ya.
AK
Social engineering is the search for and use of knowledge. Knowledge is power and Social Engineering Experts know how to use it to hteir advantage. Normally the goal of social engineering is to gain access to something that you're not normally allowed to have access to. The most popular target of such uses of knowledge was AT&T when Kevin Mitnick used it. Today you hear of people stealing identities, credit card numbers, even phone card numbers. I can almost guarantee you that if yours was stolen, you in fact gave it to them personally. Social engineering can be used over the phone, online, or in person. There is no limits on social engineering as it is all encompassing.
Dumpster diving, which is going into the dumpster of a major company looking for information on how they use their technology IE. passwords, security settings, names, phone numbers, and lingo used in the workplace, has been consitered by some as social engineering but I don't believe it is, I believe it's simply collecting knowledge while social engineering is using the knowledge. So, I hope that answered your question.
OK, now for my actual post. Stegnos is a company that makes some decent internet tools. A Hacker Toolkit which give you a bunch of viruses and antiviruses on a cd that you can study as well as several random tools. Internet Anonym is a mass proxy program which also has built in a very nice format program which, just in case the cops come, will destroy everything you have and write over it 32 times. Good tools to just have around. And you've heard of a bootable version of linux such as Slax or KnoppixSTD, buw what about a bootable version of Windows? Yes thats right Bart's PE builder is a nice tool to where you can make your very own bootable windows xp cd that has your custom programs and plugins on it.
Also I would like to thank Ubuntu for sending so many copies of their OS for us to distribute. If you would like a copy of Ubuntu Linux which is a free and open source collection of programs as well as a open source os you can email me at Akiratima@gmail.com or you can go to the site and download a copy.
Thats all I got for ya.
AK
posted by Akiratima at 1/24/2005 01:15:00 PM
1 Comments:
yea, I formatted my friend's laptop and installed it on there. While I was playing around with it I realized the only thing I didn't like was the setting up of the network connection. Besides that it's amazing.
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