52% of all Breaches are caused by Human Error

Over half… really!

Specifically, they’re usually caused by SE – the human side of security:

Social Engineering (SE) – to influence someone to do something that’s not in their best interest.

Bascially: you can have all the anti-virus software in the world, but one click on one bad link, and your computer or network is compromised.

Michele Fincher is an expert at getting you to click on that link.

Michele is the Chief Influencing Agent at Social Engineer, Inc., a premier consulting and training company which specializes in the art and science of social engineering (SE).

Don’t be fooled by her prettiness, Michele is a world-class social engineer and will breach your organization, probably while you hold the door for her.

We met at the SC Congress Security Conference, talked about Social Engineering and here comes a little series about hacking the human.

Series Topics:

1 – Don’t get Vished – here
2 – Onsite impersonation works amazing – here
3 – The multi-stage attack – here

Blog tag = social engineering

 

 

 

Fall Goal – Learn to Eat Not Powerbars for Dinner

Found that in my fridge, look at the date.

I’m also bad at forgetting about the pizza and box in the oven. The worst time was when I found one… four months later.

It was easier when I lived downtown, walk out my door and there’s 30 restaurants to choose from. I’m going to have to learn to cook this winter, necessity is the mother of all inventions and all that.

It’s just… cooking is the least interesting thing ever. Cooking is for when I’m old.