Phishing Dark Waters, Christopher Hadnagy
Phishing Dark Waters, Christopher Hadnagy
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Phishing Dark Waters
The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails

Author: Christopher Hadnagy, Michele Fincher

Narrator: Michele Fincher, Christopher Hadnagy

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/21/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An essential anti-phishing desk reference for anyone with an email address

Phishing Dark Waters addresses the growing and continuing scourge of phishing emails, and provides actionable defensive techniques and tools to help you steer clear of malicious emails. Phishing is analyzed from the viewpoint of human decision-making and the impact of deliberate influence and manipulation on the recipient. With expert guidance, this book provides insight into the financial, corporate espionage, nation state, and identity theft goals of the attackers, and teaches you how to spot a spoofed e-mail or cloned website. Included are detailed examples of high profile breaches at Target, RSA, Coca Cola, and the AP, as well as an examination of sample scams including the Nigerian 419, financial themes, and post high-profile event attacks. Learn how to protect yourself and your organization using anti-phishing tools, and how to create your own phish to use as part of a security awareness program.

Phishing is a social engineering technique through email that deceives users into taking an action that is not in their best interest, but usually with the goal of disclosing information or installing malware on the victim's computer. Phishing Dark Waters explains the phishing process and techniques, and the defenses available to keep scammers at bay.

About Christopher Hadnagy

Christopher Hadnagy is a global security expert and master hacker. He is the founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC, the creator of the popular Social Engineer Podcast, website, and newsletter, and designed “Advanced Practical Social Engineering,” the first hands-on social engineering training course and certification for law enforcement, military, and private sector professionals. He is also the first (adjunct) professor of social engineering for the University of Arizona, one of the NSA-designated Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations. Hadnagy is the creator of the Human Hacking Conference, an annual conference focused on training people who to hack themselves to achieve their goals. A highly sought-after writer and speaker, he has spoken at events such as RSA and Black Hat and given numerous presentations for corporate, government, and military clients. He is the bestselling author of four technical books for security professionals: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking; Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security; Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails; and Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, which is now in its second edition. He is also the founder, executive director, and board member of the Innocent Lives Foundation, a nonprofit that fights the sexual abuse of children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by XoG on August 18, 2018

I would definitely agree with the opinion below that this book title is a phish. An appropriate title should be smth like "Phishing for managers". Book consists of: 70% - advertisement of the authors (non-directly), other consultants in this sphere and software (directly). Phrase "for your company" is......more

Goodreads review by Freddie on August 09, 2015

Very good in parts but I felt overall lacking on the techniques of constructing effective phishes that weren't using pre-made toolkits.......more

Goodreads review by Tom on June 02, 2022

I was kinda hoping for some true crime/con artist insights into the spammer side, but this has nothing of that. It is an introduction to e-mail based hacks and how to defend against them, particularly by triaging staff to look for content clues, hover over links without clicking them, etc. This is b......more

Goodreads review by Mert on May 02, 2020

Although I am a computer engineering student, after reading this book, I understood more easily what kind of threats I faced while browsing the internet.If we look at the current world, since everyone has an internet connection, this book is for everyone.Yet in my opinion it is a book that everyone......more

Goodreads review by Adam Ernest on October 10, 2017

Good read for understanding a complete phishing program I did not like some of the analogies used in this book but other than that the information for setting up your own phishing program and the concepts about how phishing works is there. Overall its a good book.......more