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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811788603321

Autore

Erbschloe Michael <1951->

Titolo

Social Engineering : Hacking Systems, Nations, and Societies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, : CRC Press LLC, 2019

ISBN

1-000-43912-7

1-000-39828-5

0-429-32214-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Disciplina

364.168

Soggetti

Social engineering

Computer crimes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

7.8 Seminar Discussion Topics

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to social engineering use by bad guys -- The continuum of social engineering approaches -- Criminal social engineering activities -- Securing organizations against social engineering attacks -- Social engineering attacks leveraging PII -- Hacking the democratic electoral process -- Socially engineered attacks by insiders -- Educating people to prevent social engineering attacks -- The accent of cyber darkness.

Sommario/riassunto

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.