Learn Social Engineering

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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.

Preface

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What this book covers

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Introduction to Social Engineering

Overview of social engineering

Applications of social engineering

The social engineering framework

Social engineering examples from Hollywood

Tips

Summary

The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used

Introduction

Modes of thinking

Microexpressions

NLP

Human buffer overflow

Tips

Summary

Influence and Persuasion

Introduction

Five fundamental aspects of persuasion

Setting up the environment

Reality alteration (framing)

Manipulation

Summary

Information Gathering

Introduction

Gathering information about targets

Tips

Summary

Targeting and Recon

Introduction

Banks

Old organizations

Organizational employees

Elderly people

Well-wishers

Tips

Summary

Elicitation

Introduction

Getting into conversations with strangers

Preloading

Avoiding elicitation

Learning the skill of elicitation

Tips

Summary

Pretexting

Introduction

Principles and planning of pretexting

Google hacking

Successful pretexting

Legal concerns of pretexting

Tools to enhance pretexts

Tips

Summary

Social Engineering Tools

The tools for social engineering

Tips

Summary

Prevention and Mitigation

Learning to identify social engineering attacks

Mitigating social engineering attacks

Summary

Case Studies of Social Engineering

What is social engineering?

Case studies of social engineering

Social engineering case study - Keepnet labs phishing simulation

Tips

Summary

Ask the Experts – Part 1

Troy Hunt

Jonathan C. Trull

Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti

Emre Tinaztepe

Milad Aslaner

Ask the Experts – Part 2

Paula Januszkiewicz

Şükrü Durmaz and Raif Sarıca

Andy Malone

Chris Jackson

Daniel Weis

Ask the Experts – Part 3

Raymond P.L. Comvalius

George Dobrea

Dr. Mitko Bogdansoki

Ozan Ucar and Orhan Sari

Sami Lahio

Ask the Experts – Part 4

Oguzhan Filizlibay

Yalkin Demirkaya

Leyla Aliyeva

Aryeh Goretsky

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

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