How Do You Feel About Your Mother: Psychology and Social Engineering
Michele Fincher - How to you Feel about your Mother.
Summary
Architecture and Background
How Do You Feel About Your Mother: Psychology and Social Engineering was presented at DEF CON 22 by Michele Fincher. The session explores core technical principles across psychological-manipulation, social-engineering, human-factors, cognitive-bias, focusing on architectural realities and security trade-offs.
Vulnerability Analysis
The presenters examine common vulnerability patterns, operational challenges, and attack surfaces encountered in real-world scenarios across social-engineering domains.
Exploitation and Demonstrations
Through technical demonstrations, proof-of-concept case studies, or structured methodology walkthroughs, the presentation details attack execution vectors and systemic exposure.
Remediation and Defensive Strategies
The talk concludes with practical defensive guidelines, engineering hardening steps, detection telemetry recommendations, and future research directions for the security community.
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