Facial recognition tool helps penetration testing

Using fake social media profiles is a common technique among hackers in order to gain the confidence of targets and direct them to credential stealing sites. For security and penetration testing teams to replicate this is time consuming as often people have profiles across multiple sites. Ethical hacking specialist Trustwave is using a new tool called Social Mapper that can correlate profiles across multiple sites and make analyzing a person's online presence easier. Social Mapper is an open source tool that takes an automated approach to searching popular social media sites for names and pictures of individuals to accurately detect… [Continue Reading]