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No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing 1st Edition

by Johnny Long (Author), Kevin D. Mitnick (Series Editor)

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Johnny Long's last book sold 12,000 units worldwide. Kevin Mitnick's last book sold 40,000 units in North America.

As the cliché goes, information is power. In this age of technology, an increasing majority of the world's information is stored electronically. It makes sense then that we rely on high-tech electronic protection systems to guard that information. As professional hackers, Johnny Long and Kevin Mitnick get paid to uncover weaknesses in those systems and exploit them. Whether breaking into buildings or slipping past industrial-grade firewalls, their goal has always been the same: extract the information using any means necessary. After hundreds of jobs, they have discovered the secrets to bypassing every conceivable high-tech security system. This book reveals those secrets; as the title suggests, it has nothing to do with high technology.

• Dumpster Diving
Be a good sport and don’t read the two “D words written in big bold letters above, and act surprised when I tell you hackers can accomplish this without relying on a single bit of technology (punny).
• Tailgating
Hackers and ninja both like wearing black, and they do share the ability to slip inside a building and blend with the shadows.
• Shoulder Surfing
If you like having a screen on your laptop so you can see what you’re working on, don’t read this chapter.
• Physical Security
Locks are serious business and lock technicians are true engineers, most backed with years of hands-on experience. But what happens when you take the age-old respected profession of the locksmith and sprinkle it with hacker ingenuity?
• Social Engineering with Jack Wiles
Jack has trained hundreds of federal agents, corporate attorneys, CEOs and internal auditors on computer crime and security-related topics. His unforgettable presentations are filled with three decades of personal "war stories" from the trenches of Information Security and Physical Security.
• Google Hacking
A hacker doesn’t even need his own computer to do the necessary research. If he can make it to a public library, Kinko's or Internet cafe, he can use Google to process all that data into something useful.
• P2P Hacking
Let’s assume a guy has no budget, no commercial hacking software, no support from organized crime and no fancy gear. With all those restrictions, is this guy still a threat to you? Have a look at this chapter and judge for yourself.
• People Watching
Skilled people watchers can learn a whole lot in just a few quick glances. In this chapter we’ll take a look at a few examples of the types of things that draws a no-tech hacker’s eye.
• Kiosks
What happens when a kiosk is more than a kiosk? What happens when the kiosk holds airline passenger information? What if the kiosk holds confidential patient information? What if the kiosk holds cash?
• Vehicle Surveillance
Most people don’t realize that some of the most thrilling vehicular espionage happens when the cars aren't moving at all!

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2008
March 7
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Johnny Long's last book sold 12,000 units worldwide. Kevin Mitnick's last book sold 40,000 units in North America.

As the cliché goes, information is power. In this age of technology, an increasing majority of the world's information is stored electronically. It makes sense then that we rely on high-tech electronic protection systems to guard that information. As professional hackers, Johnny Long and Kevin Mitnick get paid to uncover weaknesses in those systems and exploit them. Whether breaking into buildings or slipping past industrial-grade firewalls, their goal has always been the same: extract the information using any means necessary. After hundreds of jobs, they have discovered the secrets to bypassing every conceivable high-tech security system. This book reveals those secrets; as the title suggests, it has nothing to do with high technology.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Syngress; 1st edition (March 7, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1597492159
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1597492157
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.41 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.52 x 0.66 x 9.25 inches

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Simple Threats Can Cause Serious Problems

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2008

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Johnny Long's book, "No Tech Hacking," brings new attention to overlooked aspects of information security. In his book, Long reveals how simple threats can cause serious problems, even in organizations prepared for a Mission Impossible-style attack scenario.

Long recounts how he and his team of ethical hackers consistently access sensitive information with no special equipment or technical skills. In fact, Long reveals how the ordinary (coat hangers, hand towels, drinking straws, baby powder, and aluminum cans) can result in extraordinary breaches of organizational security.

Long shares real world stories and cell-phone photographs from his adventures in people watching, shoulder surfing, dumpster diving, and vehicle observation.

Long and his colleagues go to great, conspicuous lengths to collect non-public information. While their targets should notice almost all of their activities, most do not. The closest thing to a consequence or confrontation they encounter is a glare from an airline passenger.

Why isn't Long confronted when others observe him surreptitiously taking pictures? Some people don't like to confront an unfamiliar person or don't know whom to report their concerns to. Others are complacent and don't expect negative events to occur. Action invites risk: risk of an awkward or unwarranted accusation, that one won't be taken seriously, and possible personal embarrassment. Sometimes, people feel that the safest action is no action at all. Unfortunately, that feeling of security is deceptive.

Thankfully, Long offers useful advice. He recommends that companies should:

1. Provide incentives for reporting suspicious activities, and
2. Make the desired response well-known and easy-to-do.

To follow these recommendations, organizations need to ensure that everyone knows what information to disclose and what information requires protection. Foremost, all organizations should create policies for verifying the identity of anyone who requests non-public information and adequately train all employees to recognize these situations and take appropriate actions.

In the next edition, it would be great to see more of the practical tips (perhaps even a detailed checklist for each chapter) about what do to protect against these simple, but damaging, threats.

Summary: This is a useful book for creating and spreading awareness of important and often overlooked aspects of information security.

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This Info Is Priceless!

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2011

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This book is loaded with info that every sys/network admin needs to know. I just got through reading it and wish I would have read it sooner. I found several of the described physical security vulnerabilities in and around my data center. I've been a sys admin for many years. Because of my technical focus, the non-technical threats that were present in my IT environment got over looked. I'm now working to mitigate these issues that put my high tech security system at risk. I've invested countless hours and my company has invested thousands of dollars in building a layered security system. All these efforts could potentially leave us defenseless to the non-tech attacks described in this book. This book was published a few years ago but the info here is still valid because of the human element present in the IT infrastructure. I can't wait to read some more of Johnny Long's books!

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Falls flat on control advice

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2010

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Johnny takes us on a cook's tour through the basics of social engineering and a few other non-technical methods of compromising a target organization.

In most aspects, the coverage is distinctly superficial, barely scratching the surface. In the cover blurb, the author claims to be disclosing super-cool secrets but in reality the book falls well short of disclosing anything really novel.

Other common social engineering methods, for example the psychological manipulation techniques often described by Kevin Mitnick, phishing and many other types of frauds and scams perpetrated through a variety of communications media (email, phone, letter, FAX, SMS, even paper notes left on a windshield ...), are barely mentioned. The author doesn't explain the process of non-technical hacking very well, in other words the stages normally involved in identifying, researching and exploiting a target. That a social engineer or intruder would fear detection and would almost certainly have pre-planned a cover story and escape route, for example, is only vaguely hinted at.

As seems to be the way with Syngress books, the print quality is poor. Most of the monochromatic photographic images are dark and indistinct, barely good enough even to make out the fields that have not been deliberately blurred by the author.

The social engineering chapter has a different style to the rest of the book, which is not surprising given that it was written by Jack Wiles (who for some reason is not acknowledged as an author on the cover). Jack's contribution is above average so it's a shame he didn't collaborate with Johnny on the rest. Johnny's parts of the book are straightforward enough and appear accurate as far as they go. The writing style is informal throughout.

With so many photos in the book and a large font, the average page has only about 100 words, hence I was able to read the book cover-to-cover in about 4 hours. This is no heavyweight academic textbook, with hardly any actual references or even acknowledgments outside the hacking subculture.

It's hard to figure out to whom the book might appeal. It is too superficial to be of much value to actual non-tech hackers unless they are very new to the game, and it lacks the pragmatism and sound advice on countermeasures that would be of some worth to information security and risk management professionals. Maybe it would interest members of the general public, but again it expounds on the risks without really helping anyone counteract them.

Although the author ably describes some simple non-technical attack methods, it is a shame he doesn't present a more compelling call-to-action. Readers can and indeed should be more aware of, and ideally resistant to, the methods described. The book presents the basic information but doesn't really motivate readers to respond, leaving it rather flat.

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george f klein

No Tech Hacking an eye opener

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2010

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a bit chilling as he shows what can be filmed/videod off a computer screen
by a " tourist" through the business window while standing out on the sidewalk waiting for a buss .

That old " where there is a will there is a way "

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I am using this as part of my Computer studies, its easy to understand and comprehensive. Also usefull for anyone who handles data on a day to day basis.

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This is easy to read and full of ideas and I sight, even for people like me who are in that are of business. Very entertaining like his presentations on YouTube, which I also recommend

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