Posted in Columns - Murray on July 1st, 2010 by The Ethical Hacker Network RSS News Feed
As a social engineer, you spend all of your time manipulating people’s brains. Yet most of the social engineers I meet don’t know the difference between the amygdala and the cerebral cortex.
And you need to.
So this article is going to give you a quick trip through the human brain.
The brain isn’t just a single organism – it’s truly a three-part entity known as the triune brain. The idea of the triune brain was first proposed by Paul MacLean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D._MacLean). He proposed that the brain that you and your caveman ancestors shared is not a...