April 28th, 2021
Week 8: Social Engineering
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Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing
the attack process of a social engineering is to :
- gather intelligence information
- Identifying vulnerable points
- Planning the Attack
- Execution
There are various ways of which one can execute a social engineering attack such as:
- Impersonation- pretending to be someone else
- Reciprocation- The art of exchanging favors in terms of getting mutual advantage
- Influential Authority
- Scarcity
- Social Relationship
- Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)