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The Art of Hacking Humans: Intro to Social Engineering
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The Art of Hacking Humans: Intro to Social Engineering

A beginner's guide to social engineering and techniques
Created byDauda Sule
Last updated 6/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Define social engineering.
  • Give some examples of social engineering techniques.
  • Explain social engineers exploit victims.
  • Identify common social engineering messages.

Course content

4 sections • 15 lectures • 2h 22m total length

  • Introduction3:35
  • What is Cyber Security, what is Social Engineering?16:38

    The lecture introduces the concept of cyber security and social engineering, and some common terms related to the topic. After taking this lecture you will be able to define cyber security and explain it's importance; you will also be able to define social engineering as it relates to cyber security.

  • Lecture 2 Quiz
  • Why Social Engineering?11:15

    This lecture will help you understand why social engineering has been widely adopted by malicious persons and entities. At the end of the lecture you will be able to explain why criminals and malicious entities adopt social engineering as a weapon of choice.

  • Lecture 3 Quiz
  • Brief Historical Overview14:09

    In this lecture you will get to know some social engineering scams from previous centuries. At the end of the lecture you will be able to explain some social engineering scams from the past, like "the Spanish Prisoner".

  • Lecture 4 Quiz
  • Common Social Engineering Techniques0:50

    Some common social engineering techniques will be mentioned here. At the end of the lecture you will be able to mention a few social engineering techniques if asked.

Requirements

  • Basic knowledge of the Internet and networks.

Description

We are constantly exposed to various threats regarding our information in this day-and-age. We are becoming more and more connected to networks like the Internet with a lot of our daily activities - both and work and play - revolve around a digital device or platform or the other; this increases our vulnerability to compromise by malicious attackers. A very common method used by malicious attackers to compromise information and information systems is social engineering. This takes advantage of human weakness to initiate or execute an attack or breach.

This course seeks to give a basic overview of social engineering to the beginner. It introduces the concept of social engineering and some common social engineering techniques, and how these techniques can be used to manipulate victims resulting in compromise.

Note: Although email addresses are generally redacted in sample social engineering messages shown in the course, bear in mind that any email address and names of apparent senders of such messages contained herein might be hacked. That is to say the names and email addresses that appear might belong to innocent people, but might have been hijacked.

Who this course is for:

  • Employers and employees who need to understand why their information assets need to be protected.
  • Beginner students of information security
  • Anybody who wants to learn how to be safe in the information age.

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