Paula Januszkiewicz is a world-renowned IT security consultant, penetration tester, Enterprise Security MVP, and trainer (MCT). Paula Januszkiewicz is the founder and CEO of CQURE. She has her heart and soul in the company, having a deep belief that high quality and positive thinking are the keys to success. In CQURE, she devoted herself to her passion, security consulting. She has worked on hundreds of security projects, including some for governmental organizations. She is also a top speaker at many well-known conferences, including Microsoft Ignite (she was rated the No. 1 speaker among 1,100 other speakers), RSA, TechDays, cybercrime, and so on. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys researching new technologies, which she converts to authored training. She has access to the source code of Windows and is currently...
Learn Social Engineering
Learn Social Engineering
Overview of this book
This book will provide you with a holistic understanding of social engineering. It will help you to avoid and combat social engineering attacks by giving you a detailed insight into how a social engineer operates.
Learn Social Engineering starts by giving you a grounding in the different types of social engineering attacks,and the damages they cause. It then sets up the lab environment to use different toolS and then perform social engineering steps such as information gathering. The book covers topics from baiting, phishing, and spear phishing, to pretexting and scareware.
By the end of the book, you will be in a position to protect yourself and
your systems from social engineering threats and attacks.
All in all, the book covers social engineering from A to Z , along with excerpts from many world wide known security experts.
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Learn Social Engineering
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Social Engineering
The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used
Influence and Persuasion
Information Gathering
Targeting and Recon
Elicitation
Pretexting
Social Engineering Tools
Prevention and Mitigation
Case Studies of Social Engineering
Ask the Experts – Part 1
Ask the Experts – Part 2
Ask the Experts – Part 3
Ask the Experts – Part 4
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