Overview
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Prevent identity theft and network intrusion by hackers. Learn what social engineering is, who is being targeted, and how attacks are orchestrated.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Defining social engineering
- What you should know
- Hacking ethically
- Hacking the human
- Visualize the victim
- Skills of a social engineer
- Recognize an attack
- Using charm, power, and influence
- Employing browsers for social engineering
- Evaluating add-ons and extensions
- Deploying mobile-based attacks
- Manipulating with social media
- Disclosing private information
- Challenge: Avoiding online dating scams
- Solution: Avoiding online dating scams
- Disgruntled employees
- Steal an identity
- Challenge: Monitoring your employees
- Solution: Monitoring your employees
- Using email and websites in social engineering
- In person and on the phone
- Exploring the social engineering toolkit
- Using the social engineering toolkit
- Defending against social engineering
- Understanding spam
- Preventing insider attacks
- Properly disposing of data and media
- Next steps
