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Die Kunst Des Human Hacking: Social Engineering (2011)

by Christopher Hadnagy(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

3826691679 (ISBN13: 9783826691676)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

mitp

review 1: Companies, these days, must keep a lot of information secure. In Retail business, keeping the customer's credit card info safe, and keeping employee's identity information secure are top priorities. I learned from this audiobook that even though it is important to protect from hardware and software hacking, it might be more important to protect against hacking the humans at the gateway, namely, receptionists and security personnel.I think the book could have been considerably shorter and still presented the essence of everything in it, though.
review 2: Nothing earth-shattering here. The book is a whole lot less about the contemporary cyber-based social-engineering that many think about when they hear the term (for many of us, that term was probably introduced... more in the context of cyber scams) and a whole lot more about the art of social interaction. The table of contents gives a good overview of the framework. The two most interesting chapters are on elicitation (arranging an interaction in order to get the results you're looking for) and influence. In both cases, the author covers the fundamental concepts of human interaction. More than "how to con someone," these chapters, and the book in general, read more like a self-help book in a lot of places. The author admits as much, but reminds the reader that the context of the information is understanding how others work (for good or for bad) and understanding how one can spot and react to any number of actions. Basically, it's a book about how humans work and how they interact. Interesting, but not groundbreaking. less

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