Human Beings: The most easily exploitable aspect of security
Social media nowadays allows total strangers to know exactly what is going on in people’s lives. We post our children’s birthdays, our relationship status, when/where we vacation, our birthdays, our phone numbers, our email addresses.. the list goes on and on. All of this information can and will be used by malicious attackers during a …
What social engineer doesn’t love some good old fashion reconnaissance? As a social engineer, this initial stage of information gathering will make or break most engagements. As an Information Security Officer tasked with the job of keeping your organization safe and secure, it is important to understand just what malicious hackers are doing in order …
When provided with a target, the first place I will go is Google.com. The first search I will perform will be the target’s name. That’s it, no advanced operators or any additional information. I will type in the target and see where that initial search takes me. I will then follow my Google search with …
Millions of Google searches happen daily as it is one of the main players in the search engine arena. More and more users have gravitated to use Google’s services and hackers have tagged along. According to Acunetix.com, Google hacking is the term that is used when a hacker tries to find exploitable targets and sensitive …