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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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Preloading

Preloading is a technique that has been extensively applied in marketing with enormous success and is also applicable in social engineering. Let us take an example of a movie cinema. When buying movie tickets or popcorn and drinks, there will be posters all over of upcoming movies. When seated in the cinema hall, trailers are shown of some upcoming movies with a narrator starting with words such as the scariest movie... or the most action-packed movie.... It is an advert of an upcoming movie that will be shown in the cinema and the advert is already telling you how to feel and what to expect.

This brews a desire deep within you to see the movie. In restaurant adverts, there will mostly be happy people enjoying perfect meals with captions such as yummy! to give you a sense of what the food is like even before you get to taste it. These two examples give an insight of...

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