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RE: Social Engineering
From: "jpippin" <jpippin () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 18:03:06 -0500
Davie- Hackers2 and Takedown are Hollywood fluff and FUD. Interest in the subject is certainly admirable, but if you want a more reasonable, educational, and reality-based look at the events surrounding Mitnick's incarceration, may I suggest you rent/borrow/buy "Freedom Downtime" by Emmanual GoldStein and the folks at 2600. Here's the IMDB entry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309614/. Shimomura was an opportunist, not a hero. I hope you'll learn more about security from folks like Bruce Schneier and not take what you see in Hollywood movies as even close to reality. Schneier's "Secrets and Lies" is one of the most readable books on security out there - and includes social engineering topics. Now that's a book worth referencing in a thesis - as I did twice for my master's (risks of biometrics). -Joel Pippin -----Original Message----- From: coder [mailto:elite.coder () ntlworld com] Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 1:07 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: Social Engineering Hello everyone, I am currently planning on writting a thesis on social engineering, I have been fascinated with this subject since I watched Hackers 2/Takedown and read Kevin Mitnick's book. Now before I fully take on this idea, what products currently exist to minimize/prevent social engineering? If anyone saw Hackers 2/Takedown, Tsutomu Shimomura used a program that could tell him if the person on the phone actually exists in a company, does this sort of software exist? Sorry, if this is in the wrong mailing list, but I didn't see a "Social Engineering" mail list ;) Thanks ~Davie Elliott --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EARN A MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION ASSURANCE - ONLINE The Norwich University program offers unparalleled Infosec management education and the case study affords you unmatched consulting experience. Tailor your education to your own professional goals with degree customizations including Emergency Management, Business Continuity Planning, Computer Emergency Response Teams, and Digital Investigations. http://www.msia.norwich.edu/secfocus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EARN A MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION ASSURANCE - ONLINE The Norwich University program offers unparalleled Infosec management education and the case study affords you unmatched consulting experience. Tailor your education to your own professional goals with degree customizations including Emergency Management, Business Continuity Planning, Computer Emergency Response Teams, and Digital Investigations. http://www.msia.norwich.edu/secfocus ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- Social Engineering coder (Jan 03)
- Re: Social Engineering Gaddis, Jeremy L. (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering Joshua Shaffer (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering Joshua (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering Barrie Dempster (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering Clay Ye (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering Leif Ericksen (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jan 04)
- RE: Social Engineering Ryan Chivers (Jan 05)
- RE: Social Engineering Ebeling, Jr., Herman Frederick (Jan 06)
- RE: Social Engineering jpippin (Jan 05)
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- Re: Social Engineering theanathema . at . gmail . com (Jan 04)
- Re: Social Engineering barcajax (Jan 04)
- Re:Social Engineering Snuff (Jan 04)
- RE: Social Engineering coder (Jan 05)
- Re: Social Engineering List Spam (Jan 05)
- Re: Social Engineering Mario Platt (Jan 05)
- Re: Social Engineering Joshua Shaffer (Jan 05)
- Re: Social Engineering Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Jan 06)
- RE: Social Engineering Ebeling, Jr., Herman Frederick (Jan 06)
- Re: Social Engineering Gregory Boyce (Jan 06)
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