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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)

Tips

The tips for mind hacking are as follows:

  • Learn how to ask the right questions
  • Make sure your body language is in sync with your words
  • Building rapport is not what you say; it's how you say it
  • Rapport is established by matching and mirroring
  • Humans are the weakest point of any organization; the more you understand humans, their behaviors, and their history, the better you can hack them