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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)

Chris Jackson

Chris specializes in Windows and browser internals. He is a widely recognized expert in the fields of cybersecurity and application compatibility, assisting in the design of products and creating technical documentation, training, and service offerings used inside and outside of Microsoft based on years of real-world experience with enterprise customers and independent software vendors. He is the author or co-author of numerous technical papers and articles, and a featured speaker at major industry conferences around the world.

Cybersecurity is glamorized in movies, books, and TV. Often when I talk to people entering the discipline, they can hardly contain their eagerness to start diving in. Their thoughts turn to digital forensics and malware reverse engineering, they are deeply excited to begin playing this game of digital chess against a worthy human adversary...