CHAPTER 1
Social Engineering Techniques
In this chapter, you will
• Examine the types of attacks associated with social engineering
• Compare and contrast the different social engineering techniques
Social engineering is a method of using people as part of an attack process. Social engineering is just a step in the overall attack process, but it is an effective way of starting an attack on a system. There are various forms of technical attacks against the computer components of a system, but in each case, there is a starting point by which the attack is presented to the system. In this chapter, we examine the various types of social engineering techniques that can be employed to begin the attack cycle.
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