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BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
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BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

by Shakeel Ali, Tedi Heriyanto
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)

The SET is an advanced, multi-function, and easy to use computer assisted social engineering toolset. It helps you to prepare the most effective way of exploiting the client-side application vulnerabilities and make a fascinating attempt to capture the target's confidential information (for example, e-mail passwords). Some of the most efficient and useful attack methods employed by SET include, targeted phishing e-mails with a malicious file attachment, Java applet attacks, browser-based exploitation, gathering website credentials, creating infectious portable media (USB/DVD/CD), mass-mailer attacks, and other similar multi-attack web vectors. This combination of attack methods provides a powerful platform to utilize ...

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ISBN: 9781849513944