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Ethical 'con artist' Jenny Radcliffe: 4 signs you're about to be breached

Meet the ‘human hacker’ who learned the dark arts of criminal psychology as a former burglar. Here she discusses how to fend off thieves – cyber or otherwise…


Since the pandemic, it’s been raining business for security expert Jenny Radcliffe. The self-proclaimed ‘social engineer’ now earns her (legal) crust by poking into security cracks in corporate infrastructure.

“I learned to scan buildings and learn where the vulnerabilities might be. I’ve been doing it since I was seven-years-old, when I broke into a zoo,” says Radcliffe, who says she learnt the art of ‘physical infiltration’ while growing up in Liverpool, UK.

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