ICS Village Keynote: Reading the Future with Useful Fiction
Best-selling author and strategist P.W. Singer delivers the opening keynote for the DEF CON 29 ICS Village on useful fiction and forecasting cyber conflicts.
Summary
Social Engineering and Human-Oriented Security
This presentation explores social engineering attacks and human vulnerability in security systems. Topics include psychological manipulation, pretexting, credential harvesting, and how attackers exploit human nature to bypass technical defenses.
(AI summary — Claude Haiku)
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