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Social Engineering: The Art Of Human Hacking (2010)

by Christopher Hadnagy(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0470639539 (ISBN13: 9780470639535)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Wiley Publishing

review 1: A very good introduction to social engineering. An institution's weakest point is often not it's computer network or physical structure, it's the people controlling access to those things.For priestly ministry, while the basic skills are certainly relevant the book does not directly provide anything useful. Although not evil, per se, social engineering is a form of manipulation, and in ministry we should be avoiding a conscious, deliberate manipulation of our people. Furthermore, most of the examples and skills presume one-off encounters, where the "target" will never be a sustained relationship; in ministry we have to presume the opposite.
review 2: While the US government is fixated with all things cyber, this book shows how physical and technical security sy... morestems can easily be bypassed. It mainly trends to following professional penetration testers, but also provided insight into improving your ability to influence others, as well as protect yourself from predatory manipulation, like hoaxes, scams, spear phishing, etc. The part about how woefully inadequate most corporate information awareness courses are made me laugh out loud since it pretty much nailed US DoD's abysmally boring and useless marathon that most people just click through. It provided very savvy advice on how to provide your organization with effective information assurance training. less

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