This episode focus on a phenomenon called social engineering. This form of hacking deals with the highest layer in IT-Security, the human being, also known as “user”. I spoke with logan from the social-egnineer podcast about his work as a penetration tester, the risks of social media and social proof.topics:

• penetration testing and security audits• history of social engineering• risk of social media exploitation• stay secure through paranoia, education and responsible usage• history of logan• NLP, NHR and Mikroexpressions• science in the field of Social engineering

links:

• Social-Engineer.org (including resources and podcast)• Book Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Social-Engineering-Art-Human-Hacking/dp/0470639539/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301324145&sr=8-1• Homepage of the book Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking http://www.social-engineer.com/• WP: Social Engineering http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)• WP: NLP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming• WP: NHR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro_Hypnotic_Repatterning• WP: Framing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology) • Blippy - Tool to announce your credit card purchases http://blippy.com/• Creepy - Tool to analyse gps data in Fotos http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy/• Newsletter with the social engineering report on a blippy user http://www.social-engineer.org/newsletter/SocialEngineerNewsletterVol02Is06.html• Report about Social Engineering on DefCon18 http://www.social-engineer.org/resources/sectf/Social-Engineer_CTF_Report.pdf• WP: Mikro Expression http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microexpression• WP: Joe Navarro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Navarro• homepage of Joe Navarro http://www.jnforensics.com/• Great Acting Class DVD http://www.amazon.com/Uta-Hagens-Acting-Class-DVDs/dp/B0001Z3IHG