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Learn Social Engineering

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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Şükrü Durmaz and Raif Sarıca

Having experience in more than 3000 investigation cases in all levels of cybercrime, Şükrü Durmaz is one of the leading experts in the field of cybercrime investigations on a global scale. With his background, digital forensics and cyber security expert Mr. Durmaz is the managing director of DIFOSE Limited. He is an award-winning speaker and technical expert in worldwide conferences organized by INTERPOL, EUROPOL, FIEP, NATO, and OSCE. He is also an international lecturer about cyber crime, incident response, and digital forensics. Mr. Durmaz has written various articles regarding cyber crime, cyber security, and digital forensics.

Raif Sarıca has twenty years of law enforcement experience at all levels of communications and information system (CIS) and intelligence. He also served at EUFOR and NATO as a...