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Defcon Hosting a "Capture the Flag" Social Enginee-> 0

Submitted by Elwood on Friday June 04 2010, @03:50PM

Elwood writes "The folks from Social-Engineer.org are hosting a "Capture the Flag" contest at Defcon this year: "In a twist to the popular "capture the flag" game played by hacking teams every year at Defcon, the hacker conference is hosting a contest that aims to test participants' social engineering skills — without anyone get hurt." This will allow contestants to show off their skills, and allow businesses to better see the sort of threat they are up against to better prepare defenses."
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Identity Theft How-To-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 12 2010, @10:06PM

An anonymous reader writes "The crew at social-engineer.org released a podcast today that is truly scary. They interviewed an identity thief and give a basic how-to into committing identity theft. The reasoning is that they want to protect the public by releasing dangerous information. They called it a 0Day for SE and I for one think that is accurate."
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Exclusive Interview with BackTrack 4 Dev Team -> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 18 2010, @11:44AM

An anonymous reader writes "The dev team for the pentesting distro BackTrack 4 did an exclusive interview with the team at www.social-engineer.org. It is a personal and informative podcast with the guys who brought the world BackTrack 4. The podcast answers a lot of questions like
# What is your favorite tool and why?
# What do I have to do to become a mirror?
# What took so long?
# Will BackTrack ever release editions for forensics or SE only?
# How did BackTrack come to life?
# When will you start charging for BackTrack?
# What do you do for your "real" job?"
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SE.org interviews radio icon Tom Mischke-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2009, @01:55AM

An anonymous reader writes "social-engineer.org a social engineering framework site has a popular podcast where they interviewed a radio icon, Tom Mischke. The Interview covered Pretexting from a very unique angle."
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An Official Social Engineering Framework-> 0

Submitted by loganWHD on Thursday September 17 2009, @02:17PM

loganWHD writes "The launch of an Official Social Engineering Framework was announced on Sept 16, 2009. Industry experts from fields such as law enforcement, psychiatry, penetration testing, social engineering and more have come together to build the Framework. It incorporates many aspects of social engineering from many different types of backgrounds and influences."
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Social Engineering Framework released-> 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 17 2009, @01:43PM

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday was the launch of the webs first social engineering framework. Looks to be pretty good so far, and not another "how to rip off best buy" site. Looks to be modeled off of the pentesters framework, but has a lot of application far beyond penetration testing. Plus, with the uptick of these sorts of attacks, looks to be very relevant today."
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Game systems and botnets-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2007, @02:50AM

An anonymous reader writes "Speculation on the potential of botnet harvesting of modern video game consoles. From the article: These video game systems have evolved into sophisticated networked computers that people view as toys. And as a society, we don't take toys serious. But while these devices are disregarding out of hand, they have real use in some specialized computing tasks that are sought after by those with negative goals."
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