This morning, I was listening to the Social-Engineer.org podcast with a special interview with Kevin Mitnick. It has been suggested that I was trolling Kevin, that I had a personal problem with Kevin, or that I hated Kevin and/or was jealous of him. This is simply not accurate. In my blog post, I state that, “Unfortunately, some people feel they are simply far too important to pay it forward, too busy to bother with the little fish that wants to learn, too intelligent to ever [...]

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking is a wonderful read for anyone that is involved with Information Security. Often, technical books ignore the human side of information security, yet with every click of a phishing message, data disclosure from a dumpster dive, or simply the inference that can be gleaned from a nearby bar, coffee shop, or smoking area, we should be reminded of how fragile our countermeasures are when they involve the human element. For many publications, the concepts introduced through a skilled [...]