Summary

This chapter covered the fundamentals of social engineering as well as the many stages of a social engineering attack. It also covered a variety of people-based, computer-based, and mobile-based social engineering strategies. Insider threats, including the different kinds of insider threats, were explored here. We presented an outline of social networking site impersonation and also went over the many sorts of identity theft. The chapter concluded with a detailed explanation of numerous warning indicators to look for and actions to take to protect yourself from social engineering attacks, insider threats, and identity theft.

In the next chapter, we will be discussing the process of sniffing.