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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)

Human buffer overflow

In the overview, it was said that the human brain can be hacked just like a computer. The previous sections have shown that emotions can be hacked in a target. This section discusses a much stronger hacking method of the human brain. Computer programs have been hacked with this technique where they are given larger sized inputs to hold in their buffers than they typically can. Buffers are memory storage areas used to hold certain data. When data supplied exceeds the limits, it causes an overflow. This overwhelms the programs causing errors and undesired behavior. This also facilitates a hacker to give some malicious commands when the computer programs are unable to control their own execution.

Study on estimating probabilities of buffer overflow in high-speed communication networks by Izabella Lokshin, Telecommunication Systems, Volume 62, Isssue 2, pp. 289...