Joe Gray

Practical Social Engineering

A Primer for the Ethical Hacker

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A guide to hacking the human element.

Even the most advanced security teams can do little to defend against an employee clicking a malicious link, opening an email attachment, or revealing sensitive information in a phone call. Practical Social Engineering will help you better understand the techniques behind these social engineering attacks and how to thwart cyber criminals and malicious actors who use them to take advantage of human nature.

Joe Gray, an award-winning expert on social engineering, shares case studies, best practices, open source intelligence (OSINT) tools, and templates for orchestrating and reporting attacks so companies can better protect themselves. He outlines creative techniques to trick users out of their credentials, such as leveraging Python scripts and editing HTML files to clone a legitimate website. Once you ve succeeded in harvesting information about your targets with advanced OSINT methods, you ll discover how to defend your own organization from similar threats.

You ll learn how to:
Apply phishing techniques like spoofing, squatting, and standing up your own web server to avoid detection Use OSINT tools like Recon-ng, theHarvester, and Hunter Capture a target s information from social media Collect and report metrics about the success of your attack Implement technical controls and awareness programs to help defend against social engineering
Fast-paced, hands-on, and ethically focused, Practical Social Engineering is a book every pentester can put to use immediately.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: No Starch Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 179mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781718500983
• ISBN-10: 171850098X
• Artikelnr.: 59799089

Autorenporträt

Joe Gray

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

Part 1: The Basics
Chapter 1: What is Social Engineering?
Chapter 2: Ethical Considerations in Social Engineering

Part 2: Offensive Social Engineering
Chapter 3: Preparing for an Attack
Chapter 4: Gathering Business OSINT
Chapter 5: Social Media and Public Documents
Chapter 6: Gathering OSINT About People
Chapter 7: Phishing
Chapter 8: Cloning a Landing Page
Chapter 9: Detection, Measurement, and Reporting

Part 3: Defending Against Social Engineering
Chapter 10: Proactive Defense Techniques
Chapter 11: Technical Email Controls
Chapter 12: Producing Threat Intelligence

Appendix A: Scoping Worksheet
Appendix B: Reporting Template
Appendix C: Information Gathering Worksheet
Appendix D: Pretexting Samples
Appendix E: Exercises to Improve Your Social Engineering

Rezensionen

"Gray provides a very accessible look at social engineering that should be essential reading for pentesters and ethical hackers."
Ian Barker, BetaNews

"I really liked the way that [Joe] lays out tools to use, including walking through where to download them from and install them . . . as beginner-friendly and as easy to use as possible."
Patrick Laverty, Layer 8 Podcast