Social engineering is a methodology of hacking the human – taking advantage of a person's innate trust and helpfulness to attack a network and its devices.
In this chapter, we examined how social engineering can be used to facilitate attacks designed to harvest network credentials, activate malicious software, or assist in launching further attacks. Most of the attacks rely on SET and Phishing Frenzy; however, Kali has several other applications that can be improved using social engineering methodology. We also examined how physical access, usually in conjunction with social engineering, can be used to place hostile devices on a target network.
In the next chapter, we will examine how to conduct reconnaissance against wireless networks and attack open networks, as well as how to attack networks that are protected with encryption schemes based on WPA2. We will...
