social science

Applied Social Engineering

Traditional Social Engineering

· Overview: An ontological model of a social engineering attack. Social Engineering attacks framework. Social engineering templates. Creating a test social engineering campaign - phishing—post-phishing exploitation.

· Homework: Look around for the latest phishing trends. Use tools like SEToolkit, Social- Phisher or others to create and test the campaign with your own email (or set up a dummy email account). If you are up for a challenge, try a phishing SMS with Fake SMS. Report the steps, cues, and methods you used to create your campaign and test it yourself. Include screenshots documenting the successful execution of the test phishing campaign. Write a hypothetical post-phishing exploitation scenario.