"A call-center worker patiently troubleshoots a customer's broken printer, while a cartoon character in a corner of his screen chides him for sounding too unengaged. An exhausted Uber driver needs extra cash, so she accepts a pop-up Quest on her app: drive another three trips to get a $6 bonus. At home, her partner spends hundreds of hours combing through obscure forums about the QAnon conspiracy theory: uncovering clues and drawing connections feels...

Learn to identify the social engineer by non-verbal behavior Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security focuses on combining the science of understanding non-verbal communications with the knowledge of how social engineers, scam artists and con men use these skills to build feelings of trust and rapport in their targets. The author helps readers understand how to identify and detect social engineers and scammers by analyzing their...

This book discusses the roots and rise of social engineering and presents a proven methodology for planning a test, performing reconnaissance, developing scenarios, implementing the test, and accurately reporting the results. This practical guide also addresses the impact of new and emerging technologies on future trends in social engineering. You will explore the evolution of social engineering, from the classic con artist to the modern social engineer;...

"This book explains how attackers leverage human psychology and publicly available information to target and exploit victims, and outlines ways to defend against social engineering attacks. It explores the ethical decision-making process of the social engineer when implementing a phishing engagement. Includes case studies throughout"--

"Welcome to this comprehensive course on social engineering! In this course, you will start as a beginner with no previous knowledge about penetration testing or hacking, we will start with the basics of social engineering, and by end of it you'll be at an advanced level being able to hack into all major operating systems (Windows, OS X, and Linux), generate different types of trojans, and deliver them using smart social engineering techniques. This...

Verstehen Sie die menschliche Körpersprache und die verschiedenen Gesichtsausdrücke Lernen Sie, wie Hacker versuchen, Ihr Vertrauen zu gewinnen Erkennen Sie die Sicherheitslücken jenseits der IT-Infrastruktur Denken Sie wie ein Human Hacker Rekapitulieren Sie Fallstudien mit detaillierten Bildern typisch nonverbalen Verhaltens von Human Hackern Setzen Sie Ihre neu erworbenen Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten der wachsenden Bedrohung durch Human Hacker...

Welcome to Audio Learning from Assemble You. In his book How to Hack a Human: Cybersecurity for the Mind, security expert Raef Meeuwisse defines social engineering as ... the act of constructing relationships, friendships or other human interactions for the purpose of enticing the recipient to perform an inadvisable action or reveal secret information. In cybersecurity terms, this means preying on our emotional responses to make us voluntarily compromise...