H Hamied Abou Hulaikah Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 9, 2020 #1 Recently my USA web hosting partner falls in social engineering scam, in which hacker call them by support chat who claims that he is me! He lies on support agent & give him some confusing info that was me, Unfortunately employee grant him to my main account !!! I battle the situation & requested lock down the entire account until case resolved & at the end I gained my access & beat the hacker. In this case: I'm the loser because many of things like account suspended for a long period until case resolved and sensitive information my be leaked to hacker. I'm cyber security expert, I'm advanced in OWASP, I know almost of hacking techniques to protecting my company & my clients. But Social Engineering hack was new for me! I learn my self about it in depth, So it is very dangerous like other IT hacking techniques . You can start from here then dive if you concerned.
Recently my USA web hosting partner falls in social engineering scam, in which hacker call them by support chat who claims that he is me! He lies on support agent & give him some confusing info that was me, Unfortunately employee grant him to my main account !!! I battle the situation & requested lock down the entire account until case resolved & at the end I gained my access & beat the hacker. In this case: I'm the loser because many of things like account suspended for a long period until case resolved and sensitive information my be leaked to hacker. I'm cyber security expert, I'm advanced in OWASP, I know almost of hacking techniques to protecting my company & my clients. But Social Engineering hack was new for me! I learn my self about it in depth, So it is very dangerous like other IT hacking techniques . You can start from here then dive if you concerned.
udg Expert Licensed User Longtime User Oct 9, 2020 #2 Years ago I read Kevin D. Mitnick's: - the art of deception - the art of intrusion They dive you in social engineering showing real cases and the golden rule : human beings generally are the weakest ring in the chain
Years ago I read Kevin D. Mitnick's: - the art of deception - the art of intrusion They dive you in social engineering showing real cases and the golden rule : human beings generally are the weakest ring in the chain
H Hamied Abou Hulaikah Well-Known Member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 9, 2020 #3 udg said: Years ago I read Kevin D. Mitnick's: - the art of deception - the art of intrusion They dive you in social engineering showing real cases and the golden rule : human beings generally are the weakest ring in the chain Click to expand... Yes. Social engineering is an art of understanding human emotions & exploiting it. Using this techniques one can breach the security of an organization just by manipulating a human. Also it has another name: Bugs in human hardware
udg said: Years ago I read Kevin D. Mitnick's: - the art of deception - the art of intrusion They dive you in social engineering showing real cases and the golden rule : human beings generally are the weakest ring in the chain Click to expand... Yes. Social engineering is an art of understanding human emotions & exploiting it. Using this techniques one can breach the security of an organization just by manipulating a human. Also it has another name: Bugs in human hardware
