Learn Social Engineering: Use different social engineering tools to perform information gathering, prevention and mitigation of threats (學習社會工程學：運用各種社會工程工具進行資訊蒐集、威脅預防與緩解)

Your one stop guide to learn and implement Social Engineering Effectively.

Key Features

• Learn to implement information security using social engineering
• Get hands-on experience of using different tools like Kali Linux, Social Engineering toolkit and so on
• Practical approach towards learning social engineering, for IT security

Book Description

The literature in the book can begin with understanding the concept and the whole idea behind "SOCIAL ENGINEERING" as to what it entirely compasses about and what the objective behind understanding the same is to ward off popular social engineering attacks such as Baiting, Phishing, Pretexting, Spear Phishing, Scareware and so on. Hence it becomes extremely important that we are vary of these attacks and know how to penetrate and test it.

This book will initially start with the concept of Social Engineering, different types of Social Engineering attacks, and the damages caused by Social Engineering attacks. Then we will set up the lab environment to use different toolkits and then perform social engineering steps such as information gathering, generating evil files and so on. We will also explore different tools used for doing social engineering such as Social Engineering toolkit. Towards the end of this book, we will learn how to design a threat model prominent in securing our information from Social Engineering threat attacks.

By the end of the book, you will be in a position to protect your system from social engineering threats and attacks.

What you will learn

• Learn to implement information security using social engineering
• Learn social engineering, for IT security
• Understand the role of social media in social engineering
• Get acquainted with Practical Human hacking skills
• Learn to think like a social engineer
• Learn to beat a social engineer

Who This Book Is For

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