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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)

Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti

Marcus Murray is the cyber security manager at Truesec and a Microsoft Enterprise Security MVP. His team performs security assessments, incident response, and security implementations for a variety of clients, including banks, military organizations, government agencies, and other large corporations.

He is currently focusing on nation-state cyber warfare and cyber defense. Murray often speaks about security threats, vulnerabilities, awareness, and how to implement real-world countermeasures. He has been the number one speaker at TechEd North America and Teched Europe for several years, and is a top speaker at events such as RSA Europe and IT Forum Europe. He is a member of the Truesec Security Team, which is an independent, elite team of security consultants operating all over the world.

Hasain Alshakarti is an acknowledged security expert and...