Hacking: Social Engineering Attacks, Techniques & Prevention

by Alex Wagner

Overview

In order to understand hackers and protect the network infrastructure you must think like a hacker in today’s expansive and eclectic internet and you must understand that nothing is fully secured.



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.



Your reading of this book will boost your knowledge on what is possible in today’s hacking world and help you to become an Ethical Hacker aka Penetration Tester.



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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

•2FA & Side Channel ID Verification

•Logging & Monitoring

•How to respond to an Attack

•Tips to Avoid Being a Victim



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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839381140
Publisher:	Sabi Shepherd Ltd
Publication date:	08/15/2019
Series:	Social Engineering Attacks, Techniques, Prevention
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction to Social Engineering

Chapter 0.1 Fish Related Terms

Chapter 1 The history of social engineering

Chapter 2 Psychological manipulation

Chapter 3 Human Weaknesses

Chapter 4 Social Engineering Categories

Chapter 5 Cold Call Virus Scams

Chapter 6 Authority & Fear Establishment

Chapter 7 Executing the Social Engineering Attack

Chapter 8 Signifying Legitimacy

Chapter 9 Providing Value

Chapter 10 Monetizing the Scam

Chapter 11 Reconnaissance Overview

Chapter 12 Open-Source Intelligence

Chapter 13 Organizational Reconnaissance

Chapter 14 Identifying Targets Within an Organization

Chapter 15 Identity Exploration

Chapter 16 In-person social engineering techniques

Chapter 17 Dumpster Diving

Chapter 18 Data Breaches

Chapter 19 Overview of Phishing Attacks

Chapter 20 Teach a Man to Phish…

Chapter 21 Call Signs of a Phishing Email

Chapter 22 Phishing Page Types

Chapter 23 Spear phishing

Chapter 24 Enumeration

Chapter 25 Filter Evasion Techniques

Chapter 26 PhishTank

Chapter 27 Phishing Attack with Phish5

Chapter 28 Identity Theft and Impersonation Basics

Chapter 29 Identity Theft

Chapter 30 Identities for Trade

Chapter 31 Impersonation

Chapter 32 Social Engineering Countermeasures

Chapter 33 Paper & Digital Record Destruction

Chapter 34 Physical Security Measures

Chapter 35 Principle of Least Privilege

Chapter 36 2FA & Side Channel ID Verification

Chapter 37 Logging & Monitoring

Chapter 38 ID Monitoring

Chapter 39 How to respond to an Attack

Bonus Chapter: 5 Tips to Avoid Being a Victim

Conclusion

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

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