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Reality Bending … Online Hypnosis Training with James Brown
Posted July 24, 2016 by Dale Pearson
Subscribers and regular visitors to the blog will know I am a fan of hypnosis, and like most things I am passionate for I am always on the look out to discover new ways of doing things, gaining perspective of others and generally a healthy thirst for knowledge. You will of noticed I have purchased […]
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Secrets of PickPocketing … Online Training with The Professional Opportunist
Posted March 11, 2016 by Dale Pearson
Back in October 2012 I attended a Pickpocket Training Day with Professional Opportunist James Brown, and I blogged about it on this site here. It was a great session and many people have asked me about it, but not everyone has the time to travel, or may have logistical and financial constraints based on geographical […]
Misdirection
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Faking It To Make It … Fake Data Generation Recommendations List
Posted July 17, 2015 by Dale Pearson
Depending on your history and how you got into InfoSec you may or may not of been exposed to the world of developer testing, if you did I am sure you have many unhappy memories of arguing why “real” data should not be used in the testing world, and if like me you have horror […]
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91% Of All Attacks Attributable to Spear Phishing … Infograph by ProofPoint
Posted December 11, 2013 by Dale Pearson
I just received an email from Proofpoint, and its another one of their great Infographs. This is a great Infograph re-enforcing the fact that it only takes a single breach for the cost to be significant. Not surprisingly the information shows that 91% of All Attacks have some form of phishing attribution, and 95% of […]
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Wasting Time With The PC Wizard Scammers … Fixing The Problems You Never Knew You Had
Posted November 20, 2013 by Dale Pearson
So its a cold Monday morning in November 2013 and the phone rings, who could this be? Sadly its not someone calling me to tell me there are millions of pounds to be had if I can just send some money over, instead it turns out I have computer issues, but the friendly certified Microsoft […]
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Parvum S1.0 … Cracking Passwords In Style
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Derren Brown’s Infamous Tour … Awesome Sauce!
Last night (21st May 2013) was that special time again when I headed off to see a new offering from the master that is Derren Brown, this time wrapped up in his new stage show Infamous at the New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham. I...
Longlining … The 2013 Social Engineering Threat
I came across another great InfoGraph today from proofpoint on “Longlining” and I thought I would share it. This approach uses more targeted phishing emails along with various techniques in an attempt to avoid detec...
Whats my motivation darling? … The Pretext
There are many essential skills required to be successful at social engineering, and one we have mentioned before but never really gone into is Pretexting. The easiest way I find to describe a pretext is to consider the motivat...
Why Social Engineering Works … Infograph by Veracode
I came across this great infograph from Veracode today on “Why Social Engineering Works”. Wish I had the time and the skill to put these infographs together, but here you go. (Its a relatively large file so please b...
