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Learn Social Engineering

You're reading from   Learn Social Engineering Learn the art of human hacking with an internationally renowned expert

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788837927
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Social Engineering FREE CHAPTER 2. The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used 3. Influence and Persuasion 4. Information Gathering 5. Targeting and Recon 6. Elicitation 7. Pretexting 8. Social Engineering Tools 9. Prevention and Mitigation 10. Case Studies of Social Engineering 11. Ask the Experts – Part 1 12. Ask the Experts – Part 2 13. Ask the Experts – Part 3 14. Ask the Experts – Part 4 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Human buffer overflow

In the overview, it was said that the human brain can be hacked just like a computer. The previous sections have shown that emotions can be hacked in a target. This section discusses a much stronger hacking method of the human brain. Computer programs have been hacked with this technique where they are given larger sized inputs to hold in their buffers than they typically can. Buffers are memory storage areas used to hold certain data. When data supplied exceeds the limits, it causes an overflow. This overwhelms the programs causing errors and undesired behavior. This also facilitates a hacker to give some malicious commands when the computer programs are unable to control their own execution.

Study on estimating probabilities of buffer overflow in high-speed communication networks by Izabella Lokshin, Telecommunication Systems, Volume 62, Isssue 2, pp. 289...
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