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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)

Daniel Weis

Dan has been in the IT industry for over 20 years (since 1995), he has worked within government, charitable sectors, system integrators, businesses, and industry/infrastructure from all areas both in a technical and solution capacity, through to providing security services and security consulting. Currently, Dan is heading up the security team at Kiandra IT. As the red team leader, he performs and provides guidance to testers on penetration testing and security services and performs testing on some of the most secure environments in Australia.

Dan is also a regular on the speaker circuit and presents at various conferences and events on cyber security, cybercrime, hacking, and the darknet and has a number of published articles/media on security to his name.

Social engineering is defined as any act that influences a person to take action that may or may not be in their...