Social engineering at work. Some videos from The Last HOPE conference

After Kevin Mitnick gave some stories of his exploits that landed him in jail, he and HOPE organizer Emmanuel Goldstein talked about social engineering experiences from their past. They even did a live 'prank' during the panel. Just watch the videos below.

1. Sharing stories


2. Mitnick infiltrating a Hollywood telephone company central office in the middle of the night


3. a live 'exercise' on a Starbucks employee offering aid for laid off employees from the fictional "Last HOPE Foundation"

-
Related articles:

• Maltego version 2 Community edition released
• Twitter and some of the best Tweets from The Last HOPE Conference
• Tune into The Last Hope Conference, an online Streaming Radio Broadcast
• How to follow The Last HOPE conference without being there
• Maltego 2.0 released: the good and the bad
• The dangers of Web 2.0: information gathering tactics 101
• Two Online information gathering tools
• Avoid social engineering and identity theft
• CEOs of large companies targeted in new whaling wave
• This is how good the targeted attacks are getting
• Which non-executables files are targeted the most?
• Security.nl, Maarten, social engineering and targeted attacks
• Social engineering put to the test. How would your employee score?
• Social engineering pentesting against your employees

(Photo under Creative Commons from Nick Humphries Photostream)