Social Engineering, Paul Wilson
Social Engineering, Paul Wilson
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Social Engineering
The Art of Human Hacking

Author: Paul Wilson, Christopher Hadnagy

Narrator: A. T. Chandler

Unabridged: 14 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Identity theft, fraud, and deception - these are the titles in every newspaper around the globe.  As these threats increase it is even more important for consumers, IT Staff and security professionals to be aware and prepared to combat against these.  How can we do that without proper education?  This book provides a basis for this education and a foundation for protection from social engineering. The best deterrent to a crime is to reveal how the crime is perpetrated. This book provides that reveal and at the same time, steps through how to prevent social engineering threats. Of significant interest is the case study section: Dissecting The Art of Deception's Case Studies Obtaining Information from the DMV The Social Security Administration Our own Case Studies The Over confident CEO The Theme Park Email Scandal As a bonus, readers can also link directly to: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/ for the latest version of BackTrack Social Engineers Edition, one of the world's premiere penetration testing distributions, with tools and features focused on the social engineer.  BackTrack and its solid community can be reviewed at www.remote-exploit.org.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Todd

Let me start by saying that Social Engineering is one of the two areas of information security where I have specialized (in addition to application security), so I was looking forward to this book, and, undoubtedly, I set my expectations too highly. Here is a big part of where my excitement originate......more

Goodreads review by Bradley

This is a pretty good white-hat breakdown of techniques that exploit the more psychological aspects of hacking. Indeed, while it does go into some really decent detail focusing on awareness of methods, it really shines in highlighting how one might go into business as an Auditor, themselves. All in......more

Goodreads review by Sebastian

3-3.5 stars. Book contains plenty of useful information, but I didn't like it at all ;/ Why? 1. Narrator in Audible version was far too monotonous & made even the most interesting cases sound dull. 2. Book is too repetitive, while in the same time it lacked clear structure -> this deepens the feeling of......more

Goodreads review by Woflmao

This is one of the few books that deals with the human element in security (mainly IT security here), known as Social Engineering (SE, for short). It begins with a short example-driven overview of the technical aspects of hacking humans (Open Source Intelligence, OSINT), but it is clear that this is......more

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