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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

Modes of thinking

To get into a target's brain, an attacker needs to understand the target's way of thinking fully. It is the most logical thing to do to avoid wasting effort and time trying to guess around with mind tricks which may fail and foil the whole attack. One does not need to be a psychologist to understand how people think; all that is necessary is some attentive listening and careful posing of questions to know this. The FBI understands this and in one of its bulletins, it explained that if one could confirm a nonverbal behavior to a client in the client's preferred way as well as match the client's speech volume and tone, the client would open up. What the bulletin was saying was that if one understood a client's mode of thinking and then matched it both verbally and nonverbally, the client would not be reluctant to reveal intimate details...

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