{"id":909,"date":"2004-05-08T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-08T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2018-08-14T06:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T11:27:15","slug":"909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/08\/909\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>The Art of Deception<\/i> by Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/076454280X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=ff623c31eaa450b91075a85583e8ff3c&#038;language=en_US\" target=\"new\">Holy Tome of Mitnick<\/a>, describes the various means through which social engineers infiltrate your company to extract sensitive information.  Coupled with a bit of technical knowledge, a bit of insight into large corporate community, and two heaping tablespoons of audacity, these fellows play upon the good will of corporate insiders to get into places where they shouldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Each chapter and section analyzes different techinques used and psychological traits preyed upon, with sample scenarios (often told from real-life hearsay), but you, gentle reader, should buy this book, learn from its contents, and trust no one.  Granted, I started out <strike>paranoid<\/strike> cautious, but this book reminds you to not trust that friendly voice on the phone and to vet people you meet in person.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I recommend the book.  Read it now!<\/p>\n<p>And just so you know how much I value this book, I paid <i>whole paperback book club price<\/i> for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Holy Tome of Mitnick, describes the various means through which social engineers infiltrate your company to extract sensitive information. Coupled with a bit of technical knowledge, a bit of insight into large corporate community, and two heaping tablespoons of audacity, these fellows play upon the good will of corporate insiders to get into places [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23362,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/23362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}