As humans develop, they get acquainted with reading facial expressions. They can tell whenever the other person is happy, sad, disgusted, and so on just by looking at their faces. However, these expressions can also be faked and humans also grow up knowing how to subtly fake them. These expressions that are worn on the human face for a long time are called macroexpressions. Since they are not so involuntary, they can be faked and thus cannot be fully relied on. However, there are expressions called microexpressions. These are involuntary and cannot be faked or controlled. They are caused by emotions deep within when they trigger and cause unanticipated muscle twitches on the face. These expressions are short, do not even last a second, and are almost impossible to control. They manifest over the macroexpressions that one can wear for a long period to fool other...
Learn Social Engineering
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.
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Social Engineering
The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used
Influence and Persuasion
Information Gathering
Targeting and Recon
Elicitation
Pretexting
Social Engineering Tools
Prevention and Mitigation
Case Studies of Social Engineering
Ask the Experts – Part 1
Ask the Experts – Part 2
Ask the Experts – Part 3
Ask the Experts – Part 4
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