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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 information gathering are as follows:

  • Always remember—amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
  • Social engineering happens when a hacker uses manipulation, influence, or deception to get another person to release information or to perform some sort of action that benefits them. Essentially, it just comes down to tricking people into breaking normal security procedures such as divulging a password.
  • Make sure to shred paper that contains valuable information.
  • Make sure to use document classification in your network.
  • Make sure you have a privacy shield on your laptop screen.
  • Always use a VPN when you connect to public Wi-Fi.