Pretexting involves the creation of a scenario purposefully meant to persuade or manipulate a target into yielding some information or complying with some other requests. A social engineer will assume a pretext that falls perfectly into the situation created and uses the pretext to get the target to comply with requests. Without the created scenario or the use of the pretext, the target would not comply. In social engineering, pretexting is mostly done to impersonate people working in certain roles on jobs that give them the privilege to order or request others to do certain things. For example, a tech support in an organization can ask a user to give out some information related to computers. It therefore may not come as a surprise when a user is told to give out his or her password for it to be changed. Even though the request for a password may appear to be strange...
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.
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
Other Books You May Enjoy
How would like to rate this book
Customer Reviews
