Dave Kennedy, creator of social-engineer.org's social engineering toolkit, gives an overview of how the program was created, and how it is always changing to keep pace with crime 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...