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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)

Ozan Ucar and Orhan Sari

Ozan Ucar has been involved in professional services on penetration testing, Linux systems security, and information security training since 2006. Since 2010 to 2017, he has been providing training on information security at his training and consulting firm, where he has been a cofounder and leader of cybersecurity services.

He is founder and director of his own company, Keepnet Labs Ltd.

Orhan Sari has been studying the science of education for 13 years and has many certifications related to educational sciences (distance learning, online learning, machine learning, face-to-face learning-training presentation skills, multilingual and multicultural learning, and so on). He has also published many articles and publications in the field of cybersecurity. He has worked for Keepnet Labs as the content developer of education materials, blog posts, and so on...