{"id":584,"date":"2026-04-13T15:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/?p=584"},"modified":"2026-04-28T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T20:14:14","slug":"04-13-26-smile-youve-been-hacked-social-engineering-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/2026\/04\/13\/04-13-26-smile-youve-been-hacked-social-engineering-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"04\/13\/26: Smile, You&#8217;ve Been Hacked: Social Engineering In the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We closed out the winter semester in April with a technical deep dive into social engineering, featuring Nicholas Dedvukaj from Tyler Technologies. Nicholas first walked our members through his own career journey, then showed us a look under the hood at real-world social engineering engagements. This session specifically highlighted how devastatingly effective manipulating the pseudo &#8220;human firewall&#8221; can truly be. We went over the psychology and execution behind these attacks, providing our members with a concrete understanding of how threat actors bypass strict technical controls using only a smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser default-view'\n\t\tid='ngg-imagebrowser-5bb81321f104f9077d3e424bbb15d22b-584'\n\t\tdata-nextgen-gallery-id=\"5bb81321f104f9077d3e424bbb15d22b\">\n\n\t\t<h3>Nicholas Introduces himself to the Club<\/h3>\n\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"pic\" \n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/4-13-26-social-engineering-meeting\/IMG_1727.jpg'\n\t\t\ttitle='Here we can see Nicholas interacting with our members and introducing himself at the start of the meeting.'\n\t\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/4-13-26-social-engineering-meeting\/IMG_1727.jpg\"\n\t\t\tdata-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/4-13-26-social-engineering-meeting\/thumbs\/thumbs-IMG_1727.jpg\"\n\t\t\tdata-image-id=\"152\"\n\t\t\tdata-title=\"Nicholas Introduces himself to the Club\"\n\t\t\tdata-description=\"Here we can see Nicholas interacting with our members and introducing himself at the start of the meeting.\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"ngg-simplelightbox\" rel=\"5bb81321f104f9077d3e424bbb15d22b\">\n\t\t\t<img title='Nicholas Introduces himself to the Club'\n\t\t\t\talt='Nicholas Introduces himself to the Club'\n\t\t\t\tsrc='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/533\/nggallery\/4-13-26-social-engineering-meeting\/IMG_1727.jpg'\/>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser-nav'>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='back'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='ngg-browser-prev'\n\t\t\t\t\tid='ngg-prev-156'\n\t\t\t\t\thref='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/2026\/04\/13\/04-13-26-smile-youve-been-hacked-social-engineering-in-the-real-world\/nggallery\/image\/img_1736\/'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='next'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class='ngg-browser-next'\n\t\t\t\t\tid='ngg-next-153'\n\t\t\t\t\thref='https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/cyberclub\/2026\/04\/13\/04-13-26-smile-youve-been-hacked-social-engineering-in-the-real-world\/nggallery\/image\/img_7664-1\/'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fa fa-chevron-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='counter'>\n\t\t\t\tImage\t\t\t\t1\t\t\t\tof\t\t\t\t5\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class='ngg-imagebrowser-desc'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Here we can see Nicholas interacting with our members and introducing himself at the start of the meeting.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to offer our thanks to Nicholas Dedvukaj for taking time out of his busy schedule to discuss the topic of Social Engineering with our club members!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We closed out the winter semester in April with a technical deep dive into social engineering, featuring Nicholas Dedvukaj from Tyler Technologies. 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