2025-10-23 –, Schengen 1 & 2
It is well known that humans are the weakest link in information security.
Social engineering has emerged as a means to influence and manipulate individuals to achieve desired outcomes. In this presentation, we delve into the realm of social engineering, exploring the art of behavior alteration, manipulation and persuasive communication.
We will provide a general introduction to social engineering and guide the audience in the very first steps to actually start training this skill in a safe and responsible manner that will allow you to get a taste of social engineering by slightly altering your behaviour and still staying legal.
We will cover the following topics:
- Introduction to social engineering
- Using OSINT to collect initial information
- Creating pretext
- Fundamental principles of human behavior and decision-making
- Leveraging social normativity in persuasive interactions
- Building rapport and trust
- Exploiting trust
- Practical exercises in everyday life
Kirils Solovjovs is Latvia's leading white-hat hacker and IT policy activist, known for uncovering and responsibly disclosing critical security vulnerabilities in national and international systems. An expert in penetration testing, network flow analysis, and reverse engineering, he is also a lifelong command-line enthusiast. Kirils started programming at age 7 and by grade 9 was spending his lunch breaks writing machine code directly in a hex editor. He uses bash daily for hacking, automation, and large-scale data processing and is sometimes contracted by major online education providers to proofread their bash certification exams. He currently is the lead researcher at Possible Security.