Chapter 10Social Engineering

image At the time this is being written, about 80 percent of attacks are thought to involve social engineering of some sort. This makes learning about social engineering significant. If the attackers are using it, you should be using it too. Ultimately, social engineering attacks are going to be very effective avenues into a network so you can continue to perform testing. This would be especially true when it comes to red teaming, where you are likely to have the cuffs taken off, ...

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