Social Engineering

Christopher Hadnagy is the lead developer of social-engineer.org, the world's first social engineering framework. In more than 14 years of security and IT activity, he has partnered with the team at www.backtrack-linux.org and worked on a wide variety of security projects. He also serves as trainer and lead social engineer for Offensive Security's penetration testing team.

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No matter how sophisticated your security equipment and procedures may be, their most easily exploitable aspect is, and has always been, the human infrastructure. The skilled, malicious social engineer is a weapon, nearly impossible to defend against.

This book covers, in detail, the world's first framework for social engineering. It defines, explains, and dissects each principle, then illustrates it with true stories and case studies from masters such as Kevin Mitnick, renowned author of The Art of Deception. You will discover just what it takes to excel as a social engineer. Then you will know your enemy.

Tour the Dark World of Social Engineering

• Learn the psychological principles employed by social engineers and how they're used
  
• Discover persuasion secrets that social engineers know well
  
• See how the crafty crook takes advantage of cameras, GPS devices, and caller ID
  
• Find out what information is, unbelievably, available online
  
• Study real-world social engineering exploits step by step