Go H*ck Yourself

5 Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks

In this chapter, you’ll use your virtual hacking lab to learn one of the most common and successful ways that attackers access victims’ computers and accounts: social engineering.

Social engineering means tricking people into giving out sensitive or valuable information like passwords, credit card numbers, or medical data. Researchers estimate that 94 to 98 percent of all computer attacks start with some form of social engineering. In movies, hackers often do something really advanced to break into a network, but in the real world, they usually just send an email tricking someone into giving up ...