Jack Wiles presents various social engineering topics, from understanding the minds of hackers and victims to methods for protecting personal, household and business information from theft and destruction. Jack shares several examples of true stories to help the reader understand how social engineering attacks happen in homes and businesses, and how to prevent them.

In this chapter, for the first time, Jack reveals the contents of his red team briefcase, never before shared with the public. In all the years of leading a red team to conduct physical penetration tests into corporations and federal facilities, Jack's team went undetected, a perfect record. The first three chapters of this book offer great insight from Jack's personal experience as to how they pulled it off.

The first three chapters, as well as Chapter 7 are authored by Jack Wiles, renowned physical security specialist, professional speaker, inside penetration team leader, author and lead author of Low Tech Hacking.

Jack delves into the realm of physical security and provides actionable recommendations for increasing security at home, office, and everywhere in between. In this chapter, you'll find a breadth of advice including signage and lighting recommendations, paper record and electronic drive destruction considerations, securing subterranean entries, identifying drop ceiling vulnerabilities, reviewing security tapes and logs, and even a discussion about being extra mindful of lunch-time discussions.

As an extension of physical security, locks and lock picking have become their own topic within security. Chapter 3 will prove to be a unique view into bypassing locks. Offering more fresh content in this chapter, Jack divulges, for the first time ever, a variety of ways to bypass or disable locks without picking them. Details on creating keys and key copies with, and without, a key machine are addressed, as well as insight into proper key control. Drawing from his years of experience as a bonded locksmith, Jack shares some startling truths about locks and lock mechanisms that everyone should be aware of.

Bringing a slightly more technical approach to low tech hacking, this chapter presents the reader with a variety of attacks and countermeasures for wireless technologies in the home and office. Here, Jennifer (Jabbusch) Minella offers more than 30 unique attacks, organized in five primary categories; denial of service and availability, backdoors and cracks, rogue exploits, default vulnerabilities, and attacks on specific security tools. Wireless ploys bestowed range from disrupting municipal Wi-Fi with an antenna attack to bypassing access control systems with simple spoofing attacks.

This chapter, authored by Terry Gudaitis, Ph.D., a former operations officer and behavioral profiler at the CIA, is a frightening look at the world of targeting and surveillance from a true professional. The information provided, the true stories shared, and the references to resources readily available online are enough to send any security professional or layman running for the no-tech hills. Have you ever wanted to find a deleted tweet, or gather information on an impending corporate merger? If so, this chapter is for you. Even the most tech-savvy readers will find some of Terry's material here poignant.

Russ Rogers takes several of the low tech hacking components from the other chapters in this book and combines them to orchestrate an assortment of blended-threat attacks. This chapter guides the reader through the nuances of human nature and how to use traits such as selective attention to aide in distraction techniques, and how low tech hackers capitalize on the six basic tendencies of human behavior. In his scenarios, Russ hashes through all the considerations of a planned attack; selecting a target, designating an attack location, factoring corporate culture of the target, and picking the right technology and tools to increase the attack effectiveness. The culmination of this chapter gives the reader an insider's view of a real attack on a company, executed during a corporate event in Las Vegas.

As we near the end of the book, Jack brings the readers a little closer to the world of security and incident response by introducing two agents, one from the United States Secret Service (USSS) and one from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The interview-style format gives the reader a unique insight into the thoughts and personalities of the people most able to help in the event of an incident that spans jurisdictions, states, or even countries. In this chapter Jack also incites the readers to investigate public-private collaborative organizations such as the USSS ECTF and the FBI InfraGard.

Sean Lowther describes ways to incorporate Security Awareness Training as one of your least expensive and most effective security countermeasures. Jack met Sean about 5 years ago at a security conference and immediately recognized Sean as a world-class leader in the development of security awareness programs for organizations of all sizes. Sean is well known for designing a remarkably effective enterprise-wide awareness program at Bank of America. His program received the highest rating from the bank's regulators, and was consistently rated world class by industry peer groups. Sean firmly believes the success of a security plan is achieved by involving each and every employee. This chapter outlines the processes, procedures, and materials needed to build and measure a successful awareness program, as well as tips and tricks to keep employees engaged and make security part of the company mindset.