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Hadnagy includes lessons and interactive “missions”—exercises spread throughout the book to help you learn the skills, practice them, and master them.
What's even scarier is that both criminals and legitimate organizations engage in human hacking. This book is a guide that helps you understand how these hackers operate and how you can defend yourself against them.
Undetectable by firewalls and antivirus software, social engineering relies on human fault to gain access to sensitive spaces; in this book, renowned expert Christopher Hadnagy explains the most commonly-used techniques that fool even the ...
What's even scarier is that both criminals and legitimate organizations engage in human hacking. This book is a guide that helps you understand how these hackers operate and how you can defend yourself against them.
Executive Editor Carol Long Project Editor Brian Herrmann Technical Editor Jim O'Gorman Production Editor Kathleen Wisor Copy Editor Paula Lowell Editorial Director Robyn B. Siesky Editorial Manager Mary Beth Wakefield Freelancer ...
Always fearless and provocative, Lustig marshals a call to action, with seminal implications for our health, our well-being, and our culture.
The text highlights the main sources of risk from social engineering and draws on psychological models to explain the basis for human vulnerabilities.
"A gifted and thoughtful writer, Metzl brings us to the frontiers of biology and technology, and reveals a world full of promise and peril." — Siddhartha Mukherjee MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies and ...
The step-by-step instructions in this book will put you in a place to get what you want by understanding what people aren’t telling you.
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