A brief introduction about social engineering, how does it work, popular victims, and how to protect yourself and your company against it.

1. Social Engineering
The Art of Human Hacking

3. Who Am I?
Information Security Administrator @ Banan IT
Chapter Leader @ OWASP Khartoum
Games Builder @ CTF365
Security Awareness Evangelist
@fiberghost

7. There is NO Patch
for Human
Vulnerability

10. 95%
Of all attacks on enterprise
networks are the result of
spear phishing.
-- Allan Paller, Director of Research, SANS Institute.

13. How
Does
It Work

14. Information
Gathering

15. Vulnerability
Assessment

16. Pre-Texting

17. Building
Trust

18. Attack
Execution

19. Covering
Tracks

21. Does
It Work

23. How Can
I Protect
Myself

24. Be Paranoid (not too much though)

25. Check URLs and Apps (Virus Total FTW).

26. Use a Password Manager (for god sake)

27. Share Responsibly (I am looking at you selfie addicts)

28. Block People (annoying people, that’s what this feature is made for)

29. Two Factor Authentication FTW

30. Think Before You Act