Looking Ahead
Like Metasploit, SET is a work in progress. The security community has embraced the capabilities and potential of SET and continues to contribute to making it better. Social-engineering attacks are on the rise, so ensuring that you can properly test these attack vectors is imperative for any comprehensive security program.
As organizations and vendors get better at securing their network perimeters with software and hardware solutions, we often forget how easy it is to call or email a user and convince him to click or download something that can be used for an attack. Social engineering in general takes skill and practice, and a good attacker knows that he needs to ensure that the attack is specially crafted to target weaknesses in ...
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