When considering a career change, it’s always good to stick to an element of what you know and ensure that some of your skills are transferable. When ex-web developer, Chris, made the decision to leave the industry, he never thought …
Three People You Need To Watch Out For
When we carry out penetration tests on businesses, possibly the most crucial part is choosing the disguise and persona. There’s a lot more to it than sticking on a hat and glasses and remembering a script. After all, a lift …
Why is Mark Working at Midnight?
It can be easy to think that phishing attempts are nothing to worry about. After all, you’re never going to click on that email saying you’ve missed your Netflix payment when you cancelled your account back in 2018. But the …
The Power of the Flower
When you work in an office, there’s nothing better than when someone brings in their new baby or puppy for a meet and greet. Everyone immediately stops work and is temporarily wrapped up in a bubble of excitement. If an …
Explain The Humans
The Explain The Humans series takes a look at common components of psychology and makes sure your security awareness program is aligned with the way real people work, learn and interact. The series will be heavily supported by the expertise …
InfoSE – Getting Social
Hosting a meet up in 2019 was a rather easy affair. You put the word out to your friends and peers, dropped a little hype on social media and headed to M&S to grab some snacks and few bottles of …
Guest Blog: Ed Tucker
In this guest blog we speak to Ed Tucker (@teddybreath). There is more to this dark horse than CISO of the year and I reckon he has a few tips up his sleeve for organisations. Let’s give him a shake …
Explaining Physical Social Engineering
The world of Red-teams and Social Engineering can be quite insular. As someone who founded The AntiSocial Engineer, I know that was almost part of the design and philosophy at the time. We weren’t interested in doing things like other …
The AntiSocial Engineer Newsletter
Hello! I am Richard, the founder of The AntiSocial Engineer and I wanted to introduce the new AntiSocial Newsletter. The team and I have waited several years to release a newsletter due to the desire to really make them special. …
AntiSocial Blocklist – Community Version Launch
The AntiSocial Blocklist was a concept debated quickly in a passing idea, it quickly spiralled off into an obsession. The logic was obtained from working with victims of crime and our hands on experience of social engineering attacks. We know …
The AntiSocial AntiGrinch Giveaway
Because it’s Christmas we thought it would be good if we could give back and try to get five six lucky families using a secure password manager – like 1Password. We want to give lucky winners a voucher to start their family …
Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2018 Europe
We had the pleasure of attending the Cybersecurity Leadership Summit 2018 Europe in Berlin and thought it would be a good idea to capture some of the event and hopefully pass on some of the conference for people who did …
G-Cloud 10
We take great pride in announcing The AntiSocial Engineer has been entered into the G-Cloud 10 Framework and this signifies our ability to sell directly to HMG – in many Digital Marketplace listings we have even been listed first! From …
As We Grow
It was Christmas Eve 2014 when I started The AntiSocial Engineer. It was founded from a passion to secure people online and fuelled by utter hatred of how the information security industry was. The aim was simple, I wanted to …
2017 and Beyond
It’s been 2 years to the day since The AntiSocial Engineer was founded; The seasonal timing and also the fact we seem to be doing enough right to pay the bills have made us sit down and question where we …
InfoSec Interviews – Richard De Vere
Original article by IT Governance: here So a while back I was interviewed by Lewis Morgan from the IT Governance Blog and thought i’d share this on the site. It is a little tongue in cheek reading it back actually! But …
Yorkshire Cyber Security Event – A reflection of the real risks
The AntiSocial Engineer is supporting the Yorkshire Cyber Security Cluster to announce the first annual Yorkshire Cyber Security Event taking place on the 12th May at the 3m Buckley Innovation Centre in Huddersfield. We will be talking about our recent research …