Tag: Social Engineering

This book will provide you with a holistic understanding of social engineering. It will help you to avoid and combat ...

Ethical concerns are a front and center of both social engineering and physical security testing. HD Moore - Co-founder & CEO ...

This book analyzes of the use of social engineering as a tool to hack random systems and target specific systems ...

employee rather than an actual one, as that lowers the chance of tarnishing someone's reputation." Ed Skoudis - Fellow at SANS ...

In a pretexting attack, attackers create a fake identity and use it to manipulate their victims into providing private information.

Attackers collect information from discarded materials such as old computer equipment (e.g., hard drives, thumb drives, DVDs, CDs) and company ...

Baiting attacks use a false promise to pique a victim’s greed or curiosity. They lure users into a trap that ...

Watering hole attacks infect popular webpages with malware to impact many users at a time.

Shoulder Surfing, or Hovering, is simply looking over someone’s shoulder, writing down or memorizing logins or passwords.

Is the art of exploiting human psychology, rather than technical hacking techniques, to gain access to restricted areas, systems or ...