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What do you know about Social Engineering?

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  • #32
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    Doc wrote: »
    Its all true I hear that pedophiles can learn your address through your IP address then get you online and once they see your online they can give you a powerful electric shock through your computer keyboard which will knock you out. They can then unlock your door using their hacking skills on your computer enter your house and take you away to molest you. They can even bring you back before you wake up and you will be none the wiser. It happens to adults too. I know this is true because it happened to a friend of mines friend and is the only possible explanation as to how images of him got up on that gay porn site.

    True story!

    Maybe not.

    mental note


  • #33
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,920 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Sofaspud wrote: »
    OP is a white male, late teens to early 20s. Likes to prove his intelligence over others because he feels different to everyone else, misunderstood even.
    Chatroulette gives him the anonymity he wants to test his powers of intuition, as he has a slight fear of being ridiculed by testing it in person.
    See, the OP likes to act extroverted, and his (few) good friends would tell you he can be quite outgoing, and while this is sometimes true, sometimes this extroversion is actually a front, because the OP is really quite shy and very insecure.
    He also has a lot of unused potential, and sometimes wishes he could gain the full motivation he needs to do what he really wants to do. Now he has an interest in psychology and wants to practice it and become and expert, but it's going to be just a phase, much like the musical instruments he's tried to learn over the years but never quite fully learned to play to a standard he wished to.

    Am I on the right track OP?

    This post is better if you imagine Hannibal Lecter saying it


  • #34
    FlyingIrishMan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,860 ✭✭✭FlyingIrishMan


    I always thought social engineering was when you contact a company complaining that a product you bought of them broke, and try get them to send you out a free replacement when really you never bought the product at all.


  • #35
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Congratulations. You made a series of guesses and a completely anonymous person who may have been lying told you you were right.

    That's not social engineering. Real social engineering involves actually manipulating your "target" to do something they wouldn't normally do or give away information they'd normally be reluctant to give. For example, getting someone who would normally be very protective of their contact details to give you their address would be considered social engineering.


  • #36
    baords dyslexic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭baords dyslexic


    Even the names wrong, why do we call it social engineering when its really anti-social engineering?


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  • #37
    Seachmall
    Registered Users Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    baords dyslexic wrote: »
    Even the names wrong, why do we call it social engineering when its really anti-social engineering?

    Because it's the exploitation of general idiosyncrasies related to social interaction.

    Pranknet did some of the best social engineering prank calls. You can find their videos on YouTube.


  • #38
    Feeona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    "You: What i did to you is a blatant form of social engineering. look it up and look after yourself online kid."

    I've been David Brent and you've been wonderful. Good night!



    (You're simply the best, dun dun dun dun, better than all the rest, dun dun dun dun, better than anyone......)


  • #39
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Sofaspud wrote: »
    OP is a white male, late teens to early 20s. Likes to prove his intelligence over others because he feels different to everyone else, misunderstood even.
    Chatroulette gives him the anonymity he wants to test his powers of intuition, as he has a slight fear of being ridiculed by testing it in person.
    See, the OP likes to act extroverted, and his (few) good friends would tell you he can be quite outgoing, and while this is sometimes true, sometimes this extroversion is actually a front, because the OP is really quite shy and very insecure.
    He also has a lot of unused potential, and sometimes wishes he could gain the full motivation he needs to do what he really wants to do. Now he has an interest in psychology and wants to practice it and become and expert, but it's going to be just a phase, much like the musical instruments he's tried to learn over the years but never quite fully learned to play to a standard he wished to.

    Am I on the right track OP?

    That's pretty close. Well done. Psychology actually doesn't really interest me that much at all though.

    Your on the right track. Of course you could go through my posts and learn more about me...

    I think people took me up the wrong way. It was a joke....I'm just not very funny


  • #40
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    I actually don't know what Social Engineering is, never read a book about it or even the wikipedia page :P


  • #41
    Feeona
    Registered Users Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    Nulty wrote: »
    I actually don't know what Social Engineering is, never read a book about it or even the wikipedia page :P

    how could you be so cruel :eek:

    you'll tell me I'm adopted next :(


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  • #42
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Feeona wrote: »
    how could you be so cruel :eek:

    you'll tell me I'm adopted next :(

    What?


  • #43
    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    Ripped him apart? Jaysus lad, that's cringe city.


  • #44
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Meh, social engineering for me is best described like this
    Kevin Mitnick has proven that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
    As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of social engineering — manipulating people into doing what you want, such as giving out passwords and other information that unlocks sensitive information on networks.
    SRC
    The most significant discovery is that the attackers had selected employees at the companies with access to proprietary data, then learnt who their friends were. The hackers compromised the social network accounts of those friends, hoping to enhance the probability that their final targets would click on the links they sent.“We’re seeing a lot more up-front reconnaissance, understanding who the players are at the company and how to reach them,” said George Kurtz, chief technology officer at security firm McAfee.“Someone went to the trouble to backtrack: ‘Let me look at their friends, who I can target as a secondary person’.”
    SRC


  • #45
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    This post is better if you imagine Hannibal Lecter saying it

    and every time theres a fall stop doing the sliver thing with you're tounge cause then i did that and it sounded god damm awful :pac:


  • #46
    Nulty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,838 ✭✭✭Nulty


    Deus Ex Machina wrote: »
    Ripped him apart? Jaysus lad, that's cringe city.

    Yeah, let that be a lesson to anyone thinking about starting a thread when your drunk.


  • #47
    Pdfile
    Registered Users Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    Nulty wrote: »
    Give me a job then


    if you ca speak two or more langauges fluently, code aswell as be a legend in terms of all adobe software, basic html the other such stuff, then i might be able to actually hire you...

    :D


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