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Learning objectives

Hack updated & patched systems (windows, linux, apple mac os and android).
Generate undetectable backdoors for windows, apple mac os, linux & android.
Steal passwords from windows & linux.
Hack with microsoft office documents.
Backdoor android applications.
Make evil files (backdoors / keyloggers) look and function like normal files (image, pdf or any other file type).
Manually modify malware to bypass anti-virus programs.
Advanced malware delivery techniques (fake pages, fake emails, indirect notifications, etc)
Advanced post exploitation.
Discover websites, companies, people, emails and social networking accounts associated with a person or a company.
Install hacking lab & needed software (on windows, apple mac os and linux)
Install kali linux - a penetration testing operating system
Install windows & vulnerable operating systems as virtual machines for testing
Linux basics
Linux commands and how to interact with the terminal
Build attack strategies based on the gathered info
Generate a remote keylogger that logs every key strike entered on a target computer and sends reports by email.
Backdoor debian packages for linux

Generate apple mac os backdoors that look and function like normal files (image, pdf ..etc).
Hack apple mac os and linux computers by using a simple one line command.
Send emails from any email account.
Create fake websites that look exactly like any other website.
Create a fake login page and use it to steal passwords.
Use smart social engineering techniques to make the target person willingly use our fake website.
Deliver malware as fake updates, fake installers ..etc.
Read, write download, upload and execute files on compromised systems.
Capture key strikes on compromised systems.
Use a compromised computer as a pivot to hack other computers on the same network.
Maintain your access to the hacked systems even after restart.
Escalate your privileges to admin.
Analyse files & detect undetectable malware.
Use a sandbox to analyse undetectable malware.
Access messages, social accounts, camera, gps .....etc of hacked phone.
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Hack updated & patched systems (windows, linux, apple mac os and android).
Generate undetectable backdoors for windows, apple mac os, linux & android.
Steal passwords from windows & linux.
Hack with microsoft office documents.
Backdoor android applications.
Make evil files (backdoors / keyloggers) look and function like normal files (image, pdf or any other file type).
Manually modify malware to bypass anti-virus programs.
Advanced malware delivery techniques (fake pages, fake emails, indirect notifications, etc)
Advanced post exploitation.
Discover websites, companies, people, emails and social networking accounts associated with a person or a company.
Install hacking lab & needed software (on windows, apple mac os and linux)
Install kali linux - a penetration testing operating system
Install windows & vulnerable operating systems as virtual machines for testing
Linux basics
Linux commands and how to interact with the terminal
Build attack strategies based on the gathered info
Generate a remote keylogger that logs every key strike entered on a target computer and sends reports by email.
Backdoor debian packages for linux
Generate apple mac os backdoors that look and function like normal files (image, pdf ..etc).
Hack apple mac os and linux computers by using a simple one line command.
Send emails from any email account.
Create fake websites that look exactly like any other website.
Create a fake login page and use it to steal passwords.
Use smart social engineering techniques to make the target person willingly use our fake website.
Deliver malware as fake updates, fake installers ..etc.
Read, write download, upload and execute files on compromised systems.
Capture key strikes on compromised systems.
Use a compromised computer as a pivot to hack other computers on the same network.
Maintain your access to the hacked systems even after restart.
Escalate your privileges to admin.
Analyse files & detect undetectable malware.
Use a sandbox to analyse undetectable malware.
Access messages, social accounts, camera, gps .....etc of hacked phone.
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Syllabus

Introduction

This is a teaser lecture showing you an example of what you'll be able to do by the end of the course, don't worry about the technical aspect here, you will learn each step done here later on in the course, so just sit back and enjoy the lecture.

This lecture will give you an brief intro of what social engineering is, why its used in hacking, and why learn it?

This lecture will give you an overview of the whole course, its main sections, and what you'll learn in each of these sections.

In this course, we will be using a number of operating systems, Kali for hacking and 2 others as victim or target machines, in this section you will learn how to install all of these machines as virtual machines inside your current operating system, this allow us to use all of the machines at the same time, it also completely isolates these machines from your main machine therefore your main machine will not be affected if anything goes wrong.

This lecture will give you an overview of the lab that we will need to set up for this course.

This lecture will introduce you to the hacking operating system that we will be using throughout the course; Kali Linux. You will learn what it is, how to download it, and how to enable virtualisation on your system to run it as a virtual machine.

This lecture will teach you how to install Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Workstation Player on Windows.
VMware is the software that we will use to install different operating systems inside our current operating system as virtual machines. This will be very useful as you can use it to test and practice what you learn in this course.

This lecture will teach you how to install Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Fusion on Mac OS.
VMware is the software that we will use to install different operating systems inside our current operating system as virtual machines. This will be very useful as you can use it to test and practice what you learn in this course.

This lecture will teach you how to install Kali Linux as a virtual machine in VMware Workstation Player on Linux.
VMware is the software that we will use to install different operating systems inside our current operating system as virtual machines. This will be very useful as you can use it to test and practice what you learn in this course.

In this lecture we will have a basic look on Kali linux just to get you comfortable with using it.

In this lecture you will learn how to interact with the linux terminal and run linux commands.

This lecture will give you an overview of what information gathering is, why is it so important and what you'll learn in this section.

Maltego is a great information gathering tool that we will use during this course, this lecture will give you an overview of this tool and its basic usage.

In this lecture you will learn how to use Maltego to discover websites, domains, domain info and emails related to a company.

In this lecture you will learn how to discover the hosting company used by the target, their contact info and more.

This lecture will build up on what you learned so far about Maltego, you will learn how to discover links, websites, files and other companies associated with your target company.

Now that we are done gathering information about the target company, in this lecture we will analyse all the information we gathered so far and try to come up with attack strategies to hack into this company.

In this lecture and the next few ones we will start a new graph and try to gather information about a person not a company or a website, so we will start with a name (Zaid Sabih) and try to discover websites, links and social accounts associated with our target.

In this lecture you will learn how to gather even more information about our target person, you will learn how to discover potential friends (emails and social network accounts) of people associated with the target person.

Finally in this lecture you will learn how to discover emails of the target's friends, these can be very useful later on as we can pretend to be one of these friends and social engineer the target into doing something that would allow us to hack into their system.

In this lecture we will zoom out and look at the information that we gathered about the target person (Zaid Sabih) and analyse it to come up with a number of attack strategies.

This lecture will give you an overview of the structure of this section and what you'll learn in it.

In this lecture you will learn how to set up a windows virtual machine so that we can try and hack into it to practice penetration testing.

The Fat Rat is yet another tool that can be used to generate undetectable backdoors, in this lecture you will learn how to install it on Kali Linux.

In this lecture you will learn how to generate an undetectable backdoor using the fat rat and hack a Windows 10 machine with it.

Empire is a framework that can be used to generate backdoors for Windows, Linux, OS X and more, it uses a completely different approach to bypass anti-virus programs, this lecture will introduce you to this amazing framework and teach you how to install it on Kali Linux.

In this lecture you will learn how to use Empire to generate an undetectable backdoor and use it to hack a Windows 10 machine.

In this lecture you will learn how to modify the source code used in Empire stagers to get it to bypass all anti-virus programs.

In this lecture you will learn what is a keylogger and how it can be useful.

You will also learn how to install a program called zLogger that can be used to generate remote keyloggers.

This lecture will teach you how to use zLogger to generate a remote keylogger.

In this video you'll see the keylogger that we generated before in action, we will test it against a Windows 10 machine and you'll see how it records all key strikes and sends them to the email we picked.

In this lecture we will have a look on a password recovery tool called LaZagne, this tool can recover saved passwords from Windows and Linux.

In this lecture you will learn how to use LaZagne to recover saved passwords from a local machine, this will only work if you already have access to the target machine.

In this lecture you will learn how to use LaZagne with a reporting payload to send stolen passwords to our email address.

In this lecture you will learn how to modify file's code to get it to bypass all anti-virus programs.

In this lecture we will have a look on a very useful yet simple payload, this payload can be used to download and execute any number of files when executed.

In this lecture you will learn how to use the download and execute payload to create a perfect spying tool that steals saved passwords and constantly logs and reports all keystrikes.

This lecture will teach you how to combine your backdoor with any other file (image, pdf ....etc).

This is the first step to convert our evil file to a trojan; an evil file that looks and functions like trusted file.

In this lecture you will learn how to enhance the trojan that we made in the previous lecture and make it run the evil code in the background without showing any suspicious pop ups.

Now that we have an evil file that functions like a normal file, we need to make it look like a normal file too, the first step to achieve that is to change the icon to something that represents the file that we are trying to mimc.

The last step of making a perfect trojan is to spoof its extension so that it has an extension thats relevant to the icon and to the file that the target is expecting.

In this lecture you will learn how to use another download and execute payload, the main advantage of this payload is the fact that you won't need to use any 3rd party software to convert it to exe, this is useful because sometimes some AV programs (usually not popular ones) flag ANY bat file converted to exe using these 3rd party programs as malware, this is obviously wrong and they usually do fix it after a while, but if you find yourself in a situation where your download and execute is getting detected then you can use this methods instead.

This lecture will show you how to compile the payload we created in the previous lecture to exe and change its icon.

In this lecture you will learn how to embed backdoor code in a legitimate Microsoft Office document, this is different to what you learned so far as we used to generate an exe that downloads and executes the backdoor in the background and display a normal file to the target, then we changed the icon and spoofed the extension to make the trojan look exactly like a normal file, in this method though we will inject the evil code inside the document, so the result is going to be a legitimate Microsoft Office file with a normal icon and a normal extension, but when executed it will display a normal Microsoft Office document and run the evil code in the background.

In this lecture you will learn how to embed any evil file with a legitimate Microsoft Office.

This lecture will give you an overview of what you'll learn in this section, the lab setup that I will use and how to replicate it.

In this lecture you will learn how to use a tool called msfvenome to generate a meterpreter backdoor for OS X.

msfvenom can be used to generate backdoors for all operating systems, so the steps shown in this lecture can be used to generate backdoors for other operating systems other than OS X.

This lecture will teach you how to generate a basic Empire backdoor for Mac OS X.

This lecture will teach you how to convert the backdoor we made in the previous lecture to an executable.

This lecture will teach you how to embed the backdoor we generated before with any other file such as an image or a pdf.

In this lecture we will have a look on a download and execute payload for OSX, we will use it to generate a trojan that would open a PDF, but at the same time it will execute a meterpreter payload in the background.

This lecture will teach you how to change the icon of our trojan to something that represents the file that the target is expecting.

This is the last step of creating our perfect trojan, in this lecture you will learn how to configure the trojan to run silently and only display the file that the target is expecting while running our evil file silently in the background.

This lecture will teach you how to install Ubuntu Linux as a virtual machine so that we can use it to practice hacking into Linux

In this lecture you will learn how to agin access to any OS that uses bash (Linux, OS X, Android) using one command!

This lecture will teach you how to generate a more advanced backdoor for Linux systems.

In this lecture we will test the keylogger we generated in the previous lecture and spy on a Ubuntu Linux machine.

In this lecture you will learn how to use LaZagne to recover saved passwords from a local Linux machine.

In this lecture we will have a look on a very useful payload, this payload can be used to execute any command one the target machine and send the result to us by email.

In this lecture we will use the execute & report payload to download & execute LaZagne then send the recovered passwords to us by email.

In this lecture you will learn how to embed evil code inside a legitimate .deb file.

In this lecture you will learn how to convert that package that we made in the previous video to a deb package, and use it to hack a Linux machine.

This lecture will teach you how to embed a backdoor in a legitimate Android app and use it to hack Android phones.

This lecture will give you an overview of the contents of this section.

Spoofing emails is one of the best methods to communicate with your target , in this lecture you'll learn how to set up your own mail server to emails to your target and make them appear as if they're sent from any email you want.

this lecture will teach you how to use the email server you created in the previous lecture to send emails that appear like they're sent from any email you want.

This lecture shows another method to spoof emails so they appear like they're sent from any email address.

In this lecture we will consider a scenario where we will use a number of techniques that we learned so far to hack into OS X or a Linux machine only by sending the target an email.

This lecture will teach you how to make an exact copy of any website you want!

In this lecture you will learn how to create a fake login page identical to the a real login page and social engineer your target to enter their login info in it.

BeEF is a browser exploitation framework that allows us to run a large number of commands on hooked browser.

In this lecture we will have an overview of the interface, how to start the framework and how to create a hook page and hook targets to it.

This lecture will teach you how to inject BeEF's hook in any web page you want.

This lecture will teach you a number of tricks to manipulate URLs to make them look less suspicious and increase the chances of the target clicking on them.

In this lecture you will learn how to lure your target into browsing an evil URL without communicating with them.

In this lecture you learn how to run some basic commands on the target machine using beef, you'll learn how to run any Javascript code, get a screenshot of the page they're browsing and redirect them to any page you want.

In this video you will learn how to use beef to display a fake login dialog to the target user and steal the password they enter, dialogs can be made for facebook, youtube, microsoft or you can even create your own using the custom option.

In this video we will use BeEF to create a fake clippy tip telling the user that there is a new update, the update is actually a backdoor, so once they install that update we will gain full control over the target machine.

In this video we will use BeEF to create a fake notification bar telling the user that there is a new update, the update is actually a backdoor, so once they install that update we will gain full control over the target machine.

In this lecture we will show a flash pop up telling the target that there is a new update, once they install the update they will install flash and run our backdoor in the background.

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Covers hacking techniques for multiple operating systems, which is valuable for those seeking a broad understanding of cybersecurity threats and penetration testing

Starts from scratch and guides learners step-by-step to an advanced level, which is helpful for those new to the field of social engineering and cybersecurity

Emphasizes learning by example with practical, real-life scenarios, which is beneficial for students who prefer active learning over theoretical lectures

Teaches how to generate custom malware that bypasses anti-virus programs, which is useful for understanding how attackers operate and how to defend against them

Explores advanced social engineering techniques to deliver malware, which is relevant for understanding how attackers manipulate human behavior to compromise systems

Covers post-exploitation techniques for interacting with compromised systems, which is important for understanding how attackers maintain access and escalate privileges

Reviews summary

Practical social engineering & hacking foundation

According to learners, this course provides a highly practical approach to social engineering and hacking, covering techniques from information gathering to post-exploitation across Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android. Students appreciate that it aims to start from scratch, guiding users step-by-step. The course includes extensive hands-on activities and demonstrations of generating undetectable malware and using various delivery methods. While many find the content valuable for building a strong foundation, setting up the necessary lab environment can sometimes present challenges. Learners also value the section on self-protection.

Provides valuable information on defense.

"The final section on protecting myself from these attacks was very useful and actionable."

"It was important to learn not just how to attack, but also how to defend against them."

"I gained practical tips on securing my own systems after seeing how the attacks work."

"The defense module rounded out the course well, providing a complete picture."

"Understanding the attack vectors made the protection advice much clearer."

Designed for beginners with no prior knowledge.

"As someone completely new to hacking, I found the 'from scratch' approach helpful in building basic understanding."

"The initial sections on lab setup and Linux basics were good starting points for a beginner like me."

"I felt comfortable following along even without any prior cybersecurity background."

"The course really does start from the very basics, just as advertised."

"It broke down complex ideas into digestible steps suitable for newcomers."

Covers various tools for malware generation.

"Learning to use tools like Empire and Fat Rat was very insightful for creating backdoors."

"The methods for making malware undetectable were particularly interesting and seemed effective."

"The course introduced useful tools I wasn't aware of for password recovery and keylogging."

"I found the explanations on modifying malware and embedding code practical."

"Using different tools provided a broad perspective on malware creation."

Techniques cover multiple major operating systems.

"It was great to see how the social engineering and hacking methods apply to Windows, Linux, and Mac."

"The Android hacking module was a valuable addition I hadn't expected."

"I liked learning techniques that work universally or have specific applications on different platforms."

"Having coverage for multiple OS makes the course highly relevant for diverse targets."

"The sections on hacking various operating systems felt comprehensive."

Focus on practical demos is highly valued.

"The course is very hands-on and focuses on practical examples, which is exactly what I needed to learn these techniques."

"I really appreciated the live demonstrations of how to use the tools and perform the attacks."

"Learning by example made complex topics much easier to understand and apply."

"The practical exercises helped solidify the theoretical concepts covered early on."

"This course provided great labs for practicing the techniques on different operating systems."

May require further study for true advanced level.

"While it covers a lot, some 'advanced' topics felt more like strong intermediate concepts."

"I think to reach a truly advanced level, I would need to supplement this course with other resources."

"The course provides a solid foundation, but the 'advanced' claim might be slightly overstated for experienced users."

"Some techniques were shown but could have benefited from deeper dives into the underlying mechanisms."

"I would have liked more complex scenarios in the advanced sections."

Setting up the required lab can be difficult.

"Getting the virtual machines and tools configured correctly took longer than I expected and was a bit frustrating."

"I faced some compatibility issues when setting up the lab environment on my specific hardware."

"Instructions for setting up the hacking lab could be clearer for absolute beginners."

"Troubleshooting setup problems was a significant hurdle before I could even start the hacking modules."

"While the setup section is detailed, I still ran into errors that required external research to fix."

Activities

Be better prepared before your course. Deepen your understanding during and after it. Supplement your coursework and achieve mastery of the topics covered in Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024 with these activities:

Review Linux Commands

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Strengthen your understanding of Linux commands to better navigate Kali Linux and understand post-exploitation techniques.

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Review basic Linux commands like ls, cd, mkdir, rm, and cp.
Practice using these commands in a virtualized Kali Linux environment.
Explore command options and flags using the man pages.

Review 'Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking'

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Gain a deeper understanding of the psychological principles behind social engineering attacks.

View Human Hacking on Amazon

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Read the book, focusing on the chapters related to persuasion, influence, and deception.
Take notes on key concepts and examples of social engineering attacks.
Relate the book's content to the techniques taught in the course.

Practice Email Spoofing

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Reinforce your ability to craft convincing spoofed emails to deliver malware or phish for credentials.

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Set up a local mail server for testing email spoofing techniques.
Experiment with different email headers and content to bypass spam filters.
Craft realistic-looking emails from trusted sources.

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Create a Social Engineering Attack Scenario

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Solidify your understanding of the entire social engineering process by designing a detailed attack scenario.

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Choose a target (e.g., a company or individual) and gather information about them.
Develop a malware payload tailored to the target's environment.
Design a delivery method (e.g., spoofed email, fake website) to lure the target.
Document the entire attack scenario, including the rationale behind each step.

Review 'Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker'

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Gain insights into the real-world application of social engineering techniques from a famous hacker's perspective.

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Read the book, paying attention to the social engineering tactics used by Kevin Mitnick.
Analyze the vulnerabilities that Mitnick exploited in his attacks.
Consider how these vulnerabilities could be mitigated in modern systems.

Build a Phishing Website

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Develop practical skills in creating realistic phishing websites to harvest user credentials.

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Choose a popular website to clone (e.g., Facebook, Gmail).
Replicate the website's design and functionality using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Implement a backend to capture user credentials entered on the fake website.
Test the phishing website against a controlled environment.

Develop a Social Engineering Awareness Training Module

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Apply your knowledge to create a training module that educates others about social engineering threats and prevention.

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Research common social engineering attack vectors and techniques.
Design a training module that covers these topics in an engaging and informative way.
Include real-world examples, case studies, and interactive exercises.
Create a presentation or video to deliver the training module.

Career center

Learners who complete Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024 will develop knowledge and skills that may be useful to these careers:

Red Team Member

A red team member is part of a group that simulates attacks on an organization to test its defenses. This role requires a deep understanding of hacking techniques and security vulnerabilities. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course helps build a foundation for a red team member. The comprehensive approach to hacking major operating systems, combined with practical examples and advanced techniques, directly aligns with the responsibilities of a red team member. The course sections on bypassing security measures will be particularly valuable as it enhances the sophistication of a red team.

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Ethical Hacker

An ethical hacker uses hacking techniques to identify vulnerabilities in systems with the permission of the system owner. This role helps organizations improve their security by proactively finding and fixing weaknesses. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course helps build a foundation for an ethical hacker, as it teaches students about hacking Microsoft, Apple, Linux, and Android operating systems. The focus on practical, real life scenarios for hacking makes the course directly applicable to the work of an ethical hacker. The section on advanced malware delivery techniques would be very helpful for understanding how attackers gain access to systems.

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Penetration Tester

A penetration tester simulates cyber attacks to identify vulnerabilities in computer systems, networks, and software applications. This role involves using various hacking techniques to assess security risks and recommend improvements. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course helps build a foundation for a career as a penetration tester. The course teaches how to hack major operating systems. The course covers information gathering, generating malware, delivery methods, and post exploitation, all being the bread and butter of a penetration tester. The practical approach, focusing on real life scenarios to hack Windows, Linux, Apple Mac OS, and Android, is particularly valuable for anyone pursuing this career.

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Vulnerability Assessor

A vulnerability assessor identifies and evaluates security weaknesses in systems, networks, and applications. They conduct tests to find vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course helps build a foundation for a vulnerability assessor since it teaches students how to hack major operating systems and shows them how to generate malware and deliver it to the target. The comprehensive coverage of social engineering techniques would assist a vulnerability assessor in identifying and mitigating potential risks. The course content on bypassing anti-virus programs would be particularly helpful.

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Exploit Developer

An exploit developer researches and creates exploits to take advantage of software or hardware vulnerabilities, often requiring an advanced degree. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course helps build a foundation for an exploit developer, since this course covers advanced exploitation. Also, the coverage of bypassing anti-virus programs aligns with the needs of an exploit developer. The course's focus on modifying techniques to develop more powerful attacks makes it highly relevant to this role. An exploit developer will be able to use this course to improve their offensive capabilities.

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Incident Responder

An incident responder investigates and responds to security incidents, such as data breaches and malware infections. This role involves analyzing incidents, containing the damage, and restoring systems to normal operation. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may assist an incident responder in comprehending the methods used by attackers. Understanding malware generation, delivery methods, and post exploitation techniques can directly aid in incident analysis and response. An incident responder will be able to better defend against attacks after understanding the hacking lifecycle.

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Application Security Engineer

Application security engineers focus on securing software applications by identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities throughout the development lifecycle. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful for an application security engineer. The knowledge of generating malware and bypassing security measures helps in understanding potential threats to applications. An application security engineer will be able to more efficiently secure applications after learning malware generation and how to backdoor applications. The course sections on post exploitation are particularly relevant.

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Digital Forensics Analyst

A digital forensics analyst investigates computer systems and digital media to uncover evidence related to cybercrimes or security incidents and often requires an advanced degree. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful to a digital forensics analyst as it can provide useful context in how to approach a case. The skills learned in generating malware, post exploitation, and bypassing security can aid in understanding attacker techniques and tracing their activities. Specifically, the course's content on analyzing files to detect malware could be helpful in identifying and understanding the tools used in an attack.

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Security Architect

A security architect designs and implements an organization's overall security infrastructure, ensuring that systems and networks are protected from cyber threats. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful for a security architect because it can inform their security design strategies. The better that a security architect understands the threat, the better they can plan to mitigate it. Topics such as information gathering, malware creation, and delivery methods help inform the security architect of what to look out for. A security architect will typically need several years of experience and may often hold an advanced degree.

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Reverse Engineer

A reverse engineer analyzes software or hardware to understand its inner workings, often to identify vulnerabilities or malicious code and often requires an advanced degree. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful for a reverse engineer since the analyst needs to understand the nature and scope of malware. The modules on generating and analyzing malware can potentially aid in disassembling and understanding complex software. The course content on advanced post exploitation will enable a reverse engineer to gain more insight into the functionality of malware.

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Security Operations Center Analyst

A security operations center analyst monitors security systems, analyzes alerts, and responds to security incidents. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful for someone wanting to be a SOC analyst. The skills learned in generating malware, along with malware analysis, can help to better understand the alerts that are being triggered. The course itself will provide insight into the techniques used by attackers, which can help the analyst better address ongoing attacks. The course will be particularly helpful for generating Linux and Windows malware.

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Security Analyst

A security analyst is responsible for monitoring and protecting an organization's systems and data from cyber threats. This involves analyzing security incidents, conducting vulnerability assessments, and implementing security measures. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful in this line of work. The skills taught in the course, such as generating malware, advanced post exploitation, and bypassing security, directly apply to understanding attacker tactics and defending against them. A security analyst who understands attacks and strategies will be better equipped to create a better security posture.

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Cybersecurity Consultant

Cybersecurity consultants advise organizations on how to improve their cybersecurity posture. They assess risks, develop security policies, and implement security solutions. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful to a cybersecurity consultant since it provides practical knowledge of hacking techniques and vulnerabilities. Understanding information gathering, malware generation, and advanced exploitation would allow a cybersecurity consultant to make smarter and more informed recommendations. In particular, learning to generate undetectable backdoors would be helpful to a cybersecurity consultant. The post exploitation section of the course will also be useful.

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Information Security Analyst

An information security analyst protects information systems and digital assets from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction. They identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, and implement security measures. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful for an information security analyst, since they will be able to learn how to generate undetectable backdoors for various operating systems and other forms of advanced post exploitation. The course's post exploitation module is particularly useful to someone in this role. The knowledge of malware delivery techniques is valuable in understanding how attackers operate.

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Security Engineer

A security engineer designs, implements, and manages security systems and infrastructure to protect an organization’s assets. This role requires a deep understanding of security technologies and practices. The "Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024" course may be useful for a security engineer. The practical knowledge of hacking techniques, such as malware generation and advanced exploitation, helps a security engineer anticipate and defend against potential attacks. The course's coverage of bypassing security measures is particularly valuable, with the goal of preventing it from happening in the first place. A security engineer can use the knowledge they learn to secure their enterprise.

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Reading list

We've selected two books that we think will supplement your learning. Use these to develop background knowledge, enrich your coursework, and gain a deeper understanding of the topics covered in Learn Social Engineering From Scratch 2024.

Human Hacking

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Provides a comprehensive overview of social engineering techniques, psychology, and countermeasures. It delves into the psychological principles that attackers exploit, offering a deeper understanding of why social engineering attacks are effective. This book valuable resource for understanding the theory and practice of social engineering, complementing the course's practical approach. It is commonly used as a reference by security professionals.

Ghost in the Wires

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Provides a first-hand account of a notorious social engineer's exploits. It offers insights into the mindset and techniques used by successful attackers. While not a technical manual, it provides valuable context and real-world examples of social engineering in action. This book is more valuable as additional reading than it is as a current reference.

Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's...

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