Название: Social Engineering: Hacking Systems, Nations, and Societies
Автор: Michael Erbschloe
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2019
Страниц: 256
Язык: английский
Формат: epub, pdf (conv)
Размер: 20.5 MB

This book analyzes of the use of social engineering as a tool to hack random systems and target specific systems in several dimensions of society. It shows how social engineering techniques are employed well beyond what hackers do to penetrate computer systems. And it explains how organizations and individuals can socially engineer their culture to help minimize the impact of the activities of those who lie, cheat, deceive, and defraud. After reading this book, you'll be able to analyze how organizations work and the need for security to maintain operations and sustainability, and be able to identify, respond to and counter socially engineered threats to security.

Social engineering is an incredibly effective process of attack with more than 80% of cyber attacks, and over 70% of those from ­nation-states, being initiated and executed by exploiting humans rather than computer or network security flaws. Thus to build secure cyber systems, it is not only necessary to protect the computers and networks that make up these systems but also to educate and train their human users about security procedures as well.

Attacks on humans are called social engineering because they manipulate or engineer users into performing desired actions or divulging sensitive information. The most general social engineering attacks simply attempt to get unsuspecting Internet users to click on malicious links. More focused attacks attempt to elicit sensitive information, such as passwords or private information from organizations or steal things of value from particular individuals by earning unwarranted trust.