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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)

George Dobrea

Founder and CEO of XEDUCO Institute, George Dobrea is a cybersecurity expert and a well-known technical instructor delivering consultancy and training programs for the military, commercial, and public organizations in more than 25 countries. Awarded by Microsoft year on year since 2005 as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud and Datacenter Security and by EC-Council as the Instructor of the Year 2016 and 2017, he's a popular speaker at technical conferences including Microsoft Ignite, TechED, and Hacker Halted USA.

I am invited sometimes to deliver security awareness workshops to the management teams of different organizations. However, in most situations this happens after they have been victims of a recent security breach that usually started with a social engineering attack. And one of the common questions I normally receive from the audience is&...