Editing Social engineering (security) (section)

===Mike Ridpath ===
Mike Ridpath is a security consultant, published author, speaker and previous member of [[w00w00]]. He is well known for developing techniques and tactics for social engineering through [[cold calling]]. He became well known for live demonstrations as well as playing recorded calls after talks where he explained his thought process on what he was doing to get passwords through the phone.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8Wa9AwAAQBAJ|title=Social Engineering: Manipulating the human|date=16 May 2013|publisher=Scorpio Net Security Services|isbn=9789351261827 |accessdate=11 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/2548183|title=Mobile Devices and the Military: useful Tool or Significant Threat|journal=Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Ict Uses in Warfare and the Safeguarding of Peace 2012 (Iwsp 2012) and Journal of Information Warfare |date=|publisher=academia.edu|accessdate=11 May 2013|last1=Niekerk |first1=Brett van }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAb0si2u8eI|title=Social Engineering: Manipulating the human|date=7 October 2011|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=11 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17736407|title=BsidesPDX Track 1 10/07/11 02:52PM, BsidesPDX Track 1 10/07/11 02:52PM BsidesPDX on USTREAM. Conference|date=7 October 2011|publisher=Ustream.tv|accessdate=11 April 2012|archive-date=4 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804183916/http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17736407|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/170/34997|title=Automated Social Engineering|date=29 September 2011|publisher=BrightTALK|accessdate=11 April 2012}}</ref> As a child, Ridpath was connected with Badir Brothers and was widely known within the [[phreaking]] and [[Hacker (computer security)|hacking]] community for his articles with popular underground [[ezines]], such as, Phrack, B4B0 and 9x on modifying Oki 900s, blueboxing, [[Broadcast signal intrusion|satellite hacking]] and RCMAC.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://revistaie.ase.ro/content/70/01%20-%20Greavu,%20Serban.pdf|title=Social Engineering a General Approach|date=|publisher=Informatica Economica journal|accessdate=11 Jan 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cePEDwAAQBAJ|title=Cyber Crime|date=7 November 2018|publisher=Hays|isbn=9781839473036 |accessdate=11 Jan 2020}}</ref>