Contents Acknowledgments .................................................................................................. ix Foreword ................................................................................................................. xi About the Authors ............................................................................................... xiii Introduction............................................................................................................ xv CHAPTER 1 Social engineering: The ultimate low tech hacking threat ...... 1 How easy is it? ............................................................................ 2 The mind of a social engineer..................................................... 3 The mind of a victim................................................................... 3 Tools of the social engineering trade.......................................... 4 One of my favorite tools of the trade ......................................... 5 Social engineering would never work against our company...... 7 What was I able to social engineer out of Mary?....................... 8 The final sting--two weeks later--Friday afternoon ................. 8 Why did this scam work?............................................................ 9 Let's look at a few more social engineering tools ................... 10 Keystroke logger--Is there one under your desk? ............... 13 One of my lunchtime tools.................................................... 16