Persuasion is a vital step in social engineering. It allows the social engineer to make progress in the whole attack. This chapter has gone through the fundamentals of persuasion, highlighting the aspects that make a persuasion attempt successful. We have also gone through influence tactics that have been successfully used by politicians and the media to get people to buy their ideas. These tactics include reciprocation, obligation, concession, scarcity, authority, commitment, consistency, and, finally, liking. We then looked at how social engineers alter reality using framing. We explained the ways through which the truth can be bent to be favorable to the social engineer. The rules for making the alteration of reality have also been discussed. Finally, this chapter has looked into manipulation, one of the strongest influence and persuasion tools. It has explained how...
Learn Social Engineering
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.
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Social Engineering
The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used
Influence and Persuasion
Information Gathering
Targeting and Recon
Elicitation
Pretexting
Social Engineering Tools
Prevention and Mitigation
Case Studies of Social Engineering
Ask the Experts – Part 1
Ask the Experts – Part 2
Ask the Experts – Part 3
Ask the Experts – Part 4
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