Automated Social Engineering Back in 2009, I published my master’s thesis on Automated Social Engineering (ASE). The core idea was simple: combine chatbots with data from online social networks to fully automate social engineering attacks. At the time, the poor quality of automated conversations was the main limitation. 2020s: Automated Social Engineering Became Practical Today, […]
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Just arrived yesterday in Vancouver. The PASSAT-09 conference is quite nice so far and I gave my presentation today (“con mucha mierda” – Javier). I’m still tired from the trip and will hopefully post some pictures from Canada soon. Update: The conference was great and I met some interesting people, below are some snapshots from […]
I made the preprint version of my publication on “Towards Automating Social Engineering Using Social Networking Sites” available online. You can fetch the pdf from here: http://asebot.nysos.net. As I said before I will present this work at this year’s PASSAT in Vancouver. Abstract—A growing number of people use social networking sites to foster social relationships […]