Two years ago, Dave Kennedy, a penetration tester, social engineering expert and contributor to the website social-engineer.com, wanted to create a tool for pen testers to simulate social engineering ...

New social engineering techniques will be on full display at this week's Black Hat and DefCon events in Las Vegas. Some have already gained media attention, including a planned social engineering ...

Distributing malware has never been easier for cyber criminals with the introduction of social engineering toolkits to create fake update notifications, security researchers warn. The warning follows ...

Social engineering has always been a penetration tester's (and hacker's) most effective tool. I would say it's their best weapon, but not everyone is good at the softer, human side of social ...

I attended several great presentations during last week's BSides and Defcon. HD's VxWorks, egyp7's phpterpreter, and David Kennedy's SET talks were a few of my favorites, with great content and demos, ...

A new social engineering toolkit called Domen has been discovered that uses fake browser and program update alerts on compromised sites to infect users with malware and remote access software. When ...