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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)

Andy Malone

With a prestigious international career spanning 21 years, Andy is not only a world class technology instructor and consultant. But is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and multi award winning international conference speaker at such prestigious events as Microsoft Ignite, IT Pro/Dev Connections, Spiceworld, and the Cyber crime Security Forum. His passionate style of delivery, combined with a sense of fun has become his trademark and has won him great acclaim.

Although his primary focus is on cybersecurity, compliance, and protection Andy also loves to talk about cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure and Office 365. And with knowledge dating back to the MS-DOS 2 and Windows 2.0 era there is often an interesting story to be told. But technology never sleeps, and Andy continues to work with the Microsoft product teams to create and deliver ground...