Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff: Social Engineering

Fotopedia, cc-by-nc, Andrea Kirkby, 2008

HTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4
Cyber-Security & Business
Social Engineering
Winter Term 2026/27

Tentative Schedule

My schedules are always tentative and subject to change. If you have topics you would like to see addressed, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Week	Class Meeting
	Tuesdays 14:00–15:30 TGS 1 a/b 416		Tuesdays 15:45–12:15 TGS 1 a/b 427	Materials that might be useful for addressing the topics before class
41	06. 10.	Session 1 Introduction Ethics & Law	Lab 1 / Group 2: Ethics	Gewissensbits goes English Wikipedia: Hacker Ethic Wikipedia: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
42	13. 10.	Session 2 GenAI: Problems and Promises	Lab 1 / Group 1: Ethics	Rock's Cybermusings Disesdi Shoshana Cox: Angles of Attack: The AI Security Intelligence Brief
43	20. 10.	Session 3 General Workflow	Lab 2 / Group 2: Cyber Breach Research
44	27. 10.	Session 4 Scoping	Lab 2 / Group 1: Cyber Breach Research
45	03. 11.	Session 5 Documentation	Lab 3 / Group 2: Scoping and Documentation	Hadnagy, p. 21 Semantic Media Wiki
46	10. 11.	Session 6 OSINT: Organizations & People	Lab 3 / Group 1: Scoping and Documentation	Handelsregister VÖBB
47	17. 11.	Session 7 Pretexting	Lab 4 / Group 2: OSINT
48	24. 11.	Session 8 Building Rapport	Lab 4 / Group 1: OSINT
49	01. 12.	Session 9 Hacking Humans: Phishing & Vishing	Lab 5 / Group 2: The Praising Game
50	08. 12.	Session 10 Physical intrusion	Lab 5 / Group 1: The Praising Game	Koch, Nicholas. (2021). Inside Job: Exploiting Alarm Systems and the People Who Monitor Them. 2600 38(1), pp. 29–33 (HOPE talk 2020)
51	15. 12.	Session 11	Lab 6 / Group 2: Phishing
52	22. 12.	Session 12 Metrics	Lab 6 / Group 1: Phishing
52/ 1	23. 12. / 2. 01.	Christmas Break
2	06. 01.	Session 13 Threat Modeling	Lab 7 / Group 2: Threat Analysis	Rankin, Elizabeth. (2021). Trojan Detection and Avoidance. 2600 38(1), pp. 17–19 SentinelOne. (2025, August 7). Threat Analysis. The Threat Modeling Manifesto
3	13. 01.	Session 14 Potential Guest Speaker	Lab 7 / Group 1: Threat Analysis
4	20. 01.	Session 15 Mitigation and Prevention Plans	Lab 8 / Group 2: Mitigation and Prevention Plan
5	27. 01.	Session 16 Pentesting AI	Lab 8 / Group 1: Mitigation and Prevention Plan	Horsey, Julian. (2025, August 24). AI Attack Blueprint: Are AI Systems Leaving Us Vulnerable? Cox, Disesdi Shoshana. (2025, December 22). Attacking & Threat Modeling The Agentic Top Ten: ASI01 - Agent Goal Hijack, Part 1 OWASP AI Exchange
6	03. 02.
7	10. 02.	Exam		Other interesting stuff xcm@tuta.io. (2021). Anonymity, Privacy & Reality. 2600 38(1), p. 6f

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