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Learn Social Engineering

Learn Social Engineering

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Learn Social Engineering

Learn Social Engineering

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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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Emre Tinaztepe

Emre Tinaztepe is a cyber security expert who has been in the InfoSec field for more than 10 years. He specializes in reverse engineering, malware analysis, driver development, and software engineering. Emre is the founder of Binalyze LLC (www.binalyze.com), which develops next generation incident-response solutions. Previously, he worked as the director of development at Zemana Information Technologies—a global security company serving millions of customers worldwide. He is a keen learner and a team leader by nature.

Social engineering can be thought of as the first step in even the most advanced attacks. That's because most organizations are still investing in hardware and software rather than investing in people, but the truth is, without educated personnel, all the investment in hardware and software is useless.

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