Social Engineering in Action!

Watch the movie Sneakers (1992) and identify all of the social engineering

techniques afterwards (note them on paper as you are watching the movie). The

most relevant parts of the film (format = HH:MM:SS) are:

. 00:00:00 to 00:10:50 (background and pen test)

• 00:25:30 to 00:32:50 (socially engineering their way to steal the black

box)

• 00:40:00 to 00:43:50 (understanding the crypto cracking within the black

box)

In real life, social engineering is a lot more dark/manipulative - to demonstrate

this, watch the following sections from the Hackers 2: Operation Takedown

(2000) movie about Kevin Mitnick:

00:04:10 to 00:10:20 (finding out about the SAS system)

• 00:58:22 to 01:08:52 (breaking into the DEC systems at a university)