Honesty is the key to a
relationship. If you can fake that, you’re
in.
At times we
probably all wish we could be someone else. Heck, I would love to be a
little
skinnier and better looking. Even though medical science hasn’t come up
with a
pill that can make that possible, a solution to this dilemma does
exist—it’s
called pretexting.
What is
pretexting? Some people say it is just a story or lie that you will act
out
during a social engineering engagement, but that definition is very
limiting.
Pretexting is better defined as the background story, dress, grooming,
personality, and attitude that make up the character you will be for
the social
engineering audit. Pretexting encompasses everything you would imagine
that
person to be. The more solid the pretext, the more believable you will
be as a
social engineer. Often, the simpler your pretext, the better off you
are.
Pretexting,
especially since the advent of the Internet, has seen an increase in
malicious uses. I once saw a t-shirt that read, “The Internet: Where
men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents waiting to get
you.” As slightly humorous as that saying is, it has a lot of truth in
it. On the Internet you can be anyone you want to be. Malicious hackers
have been using this ability to their advantage for years and not just
with the Internet.
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