HACKING: Social Engineering Attacks, Techniques & Prevention

HACKING: Social Engineering Attacks, Techniques & Prevention

This book will focus on social engineering techniques that are favourite of both, White Hat and Black Hat hackers.

If you attempt to use any of the tools or techniques discussed in this book on a network without being authorized and you disturb or damage any systems, that would be considered illegal black hat hacking. So, I would like to encourage all readers to deploy any tool and method described in this book for WHITE HAT USE ONLY.

The focus of this book will be to introduce some of the most well known social engineering techniques.

This book contains step by step deployment guides of performances on how to plan a successful penetration test and examples on how to manipulate or misdirect trusted employees using social engineering.

IN THIS BOOK YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT:

-Phishing, Vishing, Smishing, Spear Phishing and Whaling

-The history of social engineering

-Psychological manipulation

-Human Weaknesses

-Social Engineering Categories

-Cold Call Virus Scams

-Authority & Fear Establishment

-Executing the Social Engineering Attack

-Signifying Legitimacy by Providing Value

-Open-Source Intelligence

-Organizational Reconnaissance

-Identifying Targets Within an Organization

-In-person social engineering techniques

-Dumpster Diving & Data Breaches

-Phishing Page Types

-Filter Evasion Techniques

-How to use PhishTank and Phish5

-Identity Theft and Impersonation

-Social Engineering Countermeasures

-Paper & Digital Record Destruction

-Physical Security Measures

-Principle of Least Privilege