Often when performing some kind of social engineering, you'll need a pretext. Well, what actually is a pretext? The Cambridge dictionary lists it as: A pretended reason for doing something that is used to hide the real reason It's a fancy way of saying; it's your back story (or legend

As a penetration tester, and Adversarial Engineer sometimes it feels like there are many different variations on what social engineering (SE) actually is. This post is a general catch all to help answer some of those common questions, and variations. The official dictionary definition of SE in terms of cyber/