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Learn Social Engineering

This book will equip 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. The book covers topics from baiting, phishing, and spear phishing, to pretexting and scareware.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

18h52m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book targets security professionals, security analysts, penetration testers, or any stakeholder working with information security who wants to learn how to use social engineering techniques. Prior knowledge of Kali Linux is an added advantage

Book content

chapters 18h52m total length

Introduction to social engineering

The psychology of social engineering (mind tricks used)

Fundamentals of influence and persuasion

Information gathering

Targetting and Recon

Elicitation

Pretexting

The tools used in social engineering

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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