Presentation Title: Social Engineering Fundamentals
Presentation Details:

** Presenting with Dave Mckay

“You might say there are two specialties within the job classification of con artist. Somebody who swindles and cheats people out of their money belongs to one sub-specialty, the grifter. Somebody who uses deception, influence, and persuasion against businesses, usually targeting their information, belongs to the other sub-specialty, the social engineer.” -Kevin Mitnik

In today’s world confidence scams present quite possibly the highest threat to security with in the business world. Control of information, withholding and leaking, can lead to massive failures and losses depending on how skilled the attacker may be. In combination with disinformation and propaganda, social engineering can as fatal as or even lead to loss of customer and shareholder confidence.

About Anthony:

Anthony Zboralski leads Bellua Asia Pacific, an Information Security consulting company based In Jakarta, Indonesia. He has more than 9 years of experience performing penetration tests, assessments, forensics and related services for some of the largest banks in Asia and a dozen Fortune 500 companies including Aerospatiale, Air France, Allianz, AXA, Electricite de France, Lagardere-Matra…

He is also known as Gaius, one of HERT cofounders and wrote some articles for phrack and hert.org (tunnelx, ciscogdb, procx, etc.). Anthony has been involved into hacking and security community since 1989 (started on x25 with otosync and bayernpower [Matthias]). He is 29 now, living in Indonesia with wife and two kids.