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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)

Aryeh Goretsky

Social engineering – from typewriter to PC

There is a common belief that all sorts of problems can be solved by technology if only something or other. Unfortunately, whatever something or other is, it almost inevitably tends to be something that computers cannot solve. Social engineering, defined as psychological manipulation to produce a desired effect on people's behavior, is one of those problems because it is fundamentally not a technological problem but a psychological one.

It's also important to keep in mind that the tricksters, con artists, and other scammers who use social engineering have access to the same technologies as those who defend against them and are subject to the same types...