This is how hackers hack you using simple social engineering
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a funny and effective real example of social engineering whenever support-desk account takeovers and human weak points are discussed.
What it is
A short clip demonstrating a phone-based social engineering trick in which a crying baby in the background is used to pressure a customer service rep. It shows how attackers exploit human sympathy rather than technical flaws.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2016 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Cites oolongCat · 2016-06 · on “The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields”
That sounds like a very tedious thing to go through to login to your email. Just use a strong password ( [LINK] ) The funny thing with having email as a username is, how sometimes people can use social engineering to gain control of your account, non of that fancy "hoaxer" stuff are needed when your service providers put untrained people in charge of your accounts. Hacking human stupidity is a more effective way in to get in to a secure system. ( as an example, this was on reddit just yesterday [this video] )
Cites Buge · 2018-04 · on “Lea Kissner's job is making sure Google products protect the privacy of users”
>Only if you define easier as 'badly designed process'. I'd be interested to know what a good process is. >That is unfortunate, but why do you believe this will always be the case? I don't believe most (if any) online accounts that I have provide enough profit to the service owner to hire and train employees with enough expertise, time, and resources to properly determine a valid recovery attempt from a fake one. Social engineering employees just seems so easy from what I've seen. It's so reliable it can be done on stage: [LINK] [this video] It just takes a single slip up and you lose. Whereas attackers can just keep trying. >Maybe this can be an opt-in for the more 'security-minded' minority. Ye
Cites michaelbuckbee · 2018-08 · on “Reddit Security Incident”
Cellphone accounts can be readily compromised via social engineering (aka tricking the CSR into changing things). Here's a pretty hilarious and effective example where a crying baby background was used: [this video]
Cites Derelicts · 2019-03 · on “Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces”
Social hacking is alive and well. During my studies in computer engineering we had lectures on cybersecurity and the person used the following example [this video] Human error is still one of the most popular hacking techniques. By getting an e-mail address you can check haveibeenpwnd to see if there were any leaks related to that e-mail address and there's already a lot that you have on a person that you don't actually know. Recently there was an increase in phishing schemes where hackers obtained the passwords of really old leaks (from myspace, armorgames etc. etc.) and sent letters to people with legit passwords trying to extort money. This was a hugely successful campaign. I'm not saying don'