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- │ S o c i a l E n g i n e e r i n g │
- │ How to get Information │
- │ By Fallen Angel │
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-
- Have you ever wished you had the finesse of calling some high-level
- operator up and getting all the information you need just by asking? Great!
- I'll outline some simple steps to the art of social engineering, or getting
- that you want, in this article. Social engineering really is an art and
- should be treated as no less. Make sure you abide by these guidlines and
- don't screw up because screwing up only alerts the security people that there
- is an imposter just begging information off of the lame-brained operators.
-
- VOICE
- -----
- First, you need to be old enough to sound like you could actually be the
- person you are trying to impersonate. The operators will be able to figure
- out that you are not thier boss if they can tell you are only 13 years old and
- your voice opens trunk lines (eg. 2600 Hz.) Get someone else to do it for you
- or wait until *after* puberty to do this.
-
- OVERKILL
- --------
- Don't act like you are a legitamit customer trying to get information because
- that can clue the operators in as to what is actually going on. You should
- consider calling as an fellow employee from another store from the chain, or
- maybe as that persons supervisor. They may be stupid and subservient to thier
- officials, but hired phone operators will know that the owner of the company
- is not going to be calling Atlanta to find out technical information or C/NA on
- someone that lives in Anchorage, Alaska. That would be overkill. The best
- bet in getting information from a TSPS (dial 0 for one of these) operator is
- to call as a lineman. A lineman is the guy that comes to your house to
- install the phones. They usually hire contractors to run extensions under
- your house as they don't want to deal with it themselves--don't call saying
- you are having problems with your wire cutters and you need to know what the
- local ANAC number is.
-
- PBX's
- -----
- PBX's are a nice utility to the social engineer because they almost insure
- that you will get a different operator each time you call. With this
- knowledge, and no ANI available to them, you can continue to query operators
- on PBX's as many times as there are operators. Obviously, if you keep asking
- the same person for information they will figure out that you don't know a
- damn thing and are trying to leech them.
-
- CONFIDENCE
- ----------
- If you stutter a lot and trip over your words they will eventually notice that
- you are not who you say you are. It doesn't hurt one bit to plan out exactly
- what you are going to say and verbally run over a few times before you call.
- You could screw up an insecure company by alerting them of the real world.
-
- JARGON
- ------
- It really helps to know the proper jargon and acronyms for the company you are
- trying to get something out of. For instance "Hello there, this is Phred
- Smith and I would shore like it if you could give me the adress and name of
- 512-555-555" wouldn't work as well as "This is Smith from line service. I
- need caller name and adress for 512-555-5555" In this case being polite
- doesn't do you much good. Good sources on jargon would be g-files on BBS's
- or hacking/phreaking dictionaries.
-
- EXTENDERS
- ---------
- Always do your engineering from an extender because there are plenty of secure
- places that will have ANI readouts on an LCD when you call in. They will call
- you back and ask you why you were calling if they think you were engineering
- them. They will get the dialout number for your extender if you call from an
- extender. For all practical purposes, this is impossible to trace.
-
- BACKGROUND NOISE
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- As a for instance, you are a telephone lineman and are boxing a call to C/NA.
- Instead of hearing birds in the background, the C/NA operators hear
- keyboard clicks and other phones ringing. They will not give you anything in
- situations like this. Call when nobody else is home or if they are asleep.
-
- TIMING
- ------
- This is a small but important matter. The operators will know that you aren't
- really installing a phone line if it's 2:30 a.m. and you are whispering so you
- don't wake up the parents! You have to remember things like this.
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