20 October, 2017

How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard

How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard:

Hello! My name is Sophie and I break into buildings. I get paid to think like a criminal.
Organizations hire me to evaluate their security, which I do by seeing if I can bypass it. During tests I get to do some lockpicking, climb over walls or hop barbed wire fences. I get to go dumpster diving and play with all sorts of cool gadgets that Q would be proud of.
But usually, I use what is called social engineering to convince the employees to let me in. Sometimes I use email or phone calls to pretend to be someone I am not. Most often I get to approach people in-person and give them the confidence to let me in.
My frequently asked questions include:
What break-in are you most proud of? 
What have you done for a test that you were the most ashamed of?
What follows is the answer to both of these questions.


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