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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)

NLP

NLP studies the way humans think and experience the environment surrounding them. It leads to the formation of models of how some principles work. However, it is controversial since it is admittedly not precise. The history of NLP can be tracked down to the 1970s. It was developed by Bandler and Grinder. They were the first researchers to come up with the code of NLP. They also developed a therapy model called the meta-model which they refined over the years for NLP.

Neurolinguistic programming, by E. H. Marcus, Personnel Journal (Pre-1986), Volume 62, (000012), pp. 972, 1983 available at https://search.proquest.com/docview/203642455?accountid=45049.

Codes of NLP

When Bandler and Grinder came up with NLP, it was not as...