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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.

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Introduction to Social Engineering

Introduction to Social Engineering

Overview of social engineering

Applications of social engineering

The social engineering framework

Social engineering examples from Hollywood

The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used

The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used

Modes of thinking

Microexpressions

Human buffer overflow

Influence and Persuasion

Influence and Persuasion

Five fundamental aspects of persuasion

Setting up the environment

Reality alteration (framing)

Information Gathering

Information Gathering

Gathering information about targets

Targeting and Recon

Targeting and Recon

Old organizations

Organizational employees

Elicitation

Getting into conversations with strangers

Avoiding elicitation

Learning the skill of elicitation

Pretexting

Principles and planning of pretexting

Successful pretexting

Legal concerns of pretexting

Tools to enhance pretexts

Social Engineering Tools

Social Engineering Tools

The tools for social engineering

Prevention and Mitigation

Prevention and Mitigation

Learning to identify social engineering attacks

Mitigating social engineering attacks

Case Studies of Social Engineering

Case Studies of Social Engineering

What is social engineering?

Case studies of social engineering

Social engineering case study - Keepnet labs phishing simulation

Ask the Experts – Part 1

Ask the Experts – Part 1

Jonathan C. Trull

Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti

Ask the Experts – Part 2

Ask the Experts – Part 2

Paula Januszkiewicz

Şükrü Durmaz and Raif Sarıca

Ask the Experts – Part 3

Ask the Experts – Part 3

Raymond P.L. Comvalius

Dr. Mitko Bogdansoki

Ozan Ucar and Orhan Sari

Ask the Experts – Part 4

Ask the Experts – Part 4

Oguzhan Filizlibay

Yalkin Demirkaya

Dr. Islam, MD Rafiqul, and Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

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Sami Lahio

Sami Laiho is one of the world's leading professionals in Windows and security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security for more than 20 years. Sami's session was evaluated as the best session at TechEd North America, Europe, and Australia in 2014, and the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016 and 2017, and the Best External Speaker at Ignite 2017. Sami is also an author at PluralSight and the newly appointed conference chair at the TechMentor conference.

I've been teaching and implementing highly technical security measures for more than two decades but time after time I see breaches happen mostly because of the simple act of social engineering.

Sometimes it's physical security and procedures that fail, such as the hotel in Oslo where I went a few years ago. I got a key card from the reception and...