From: Matthew Leeds (mleeds@theleeds.net)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 17:48:39 EDT
Much as I find many of their entries wildly incorrect and biased, I'd start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(computer_security)
as in this case there are a large number of useful references in the entry.
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---Matthew
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On 10/12/2006 at 12:27 PM Mustafa Yücelgen wrote:
>Thah would be nice. 'Cos nowadays I'm trying to prepare a training for a
>big
>GSM Operator. And I need examples to convince the top management about the
>needs.
>
>Good luck!
>
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>From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On
>Behalf Of xun dong
>Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 1:32 PM
>To: pen-test@securityfocus.com; security-basics@securityfocus.com
>Subject: Social Engineering Data set
>
>Hello list;
>
>I am currently doing research on Social Engineering Attacks. Unlike the
>technical hack, I found that there is few useful and well documented SE
>attack examples on the Internet. So I decided to create a data set for SE
>attacks, and I am willing to publish it for free on the Internet.
>
>However, I think only my own experience would not be able to make this
>dataset as comprehensive as possible. So I would like to ask for help on
>this list. If you think you have SE attack examples, you can email me.
>Of course for confidential reason you should not use the real name in your
>example. If you don't mind I will also publish your name along with the
>example you provided. Thanks a lot in advance. I hope this could be a step
>forwards in protecting against SE attacks.
>
>--
>Xun Dong
>Research Associate
>Department of Computer Science
>University of York
>
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