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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)

Learning the skill of elicitation

In the previous chapters, we have been identifying a few tips and techniques to help you master the skills taught, so that you can be better equipped to defend yourself against certain social engineering techniques. Therefore, we are going to go through a few pointers on how to become a master in elicitation. However, you should note the following:

  • A social engineer never asks a target too many questions, as this will likely turn them off. Nothing is as annoying as being blasted with question after question after question. Remember the three tips given previously about starting off and maintaining conversations with targets.
  • A social engineer never asks too few questions, in order to avoid raising suspicion and awkwardness. They would never leave a target wondering why some questions were asked and then swiftly abandoned. They will know how to...