01-14-12
Backtrack 5: Social Engineering Toolkit Primer for Penetration Testing
Social engineering attacks are one of the top techniques used against networks today. Why spend days, weeks or even months trying to penetrate layers of network security when you can just trick a user into running a file that allows you full access to their machine and bypasses anti-virus, firewalls and many intrusion detection systems? [...]
05-24-11
Creepy Tools for Social Engineers and Information Gathering
Track any target’s GeoLocation from their tweets and social media.
05-19-11
The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) 1.5 released
The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It’s main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed.