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Social engineering involves the psychological manipulation of people and it's used to trick them into divulging information or performing certain actions. In this course, you'll learn how social engineering attacks are performed and how they can be used by attackers. You'll explore the pretext for a social engineering approach, as well as various social engineering attacks such as e-mail phishing, vishing, short message service, phishing, universal serial bus drop key, and watering hole. You'll then learn about tailgating, dumpster diving, shoulder surfing, and badge cloning physical attack methods. Lastly, you'll examine social engineering impersonation techniques, methods of influence, and tools. This course is one of a collection that helps prepare learners for the CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-002) certification exam.

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Objectives

CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-002): Social Engineering Attacks discover the key concepts covered in this course provide an overview of the pretexting phase of social engineering differentiate between whaling and spear phishing e-mail phishing attacks recognize the characteristics of a short message service (SMS) phishing attack describe the dangers of lost and found thumb drives provide an overview of the vishing attack method describe the characteristics of a watering hole attack list characteristics of a tailgating attack provide an overview of dumpster diving attacks describe how shoulder surfing can lead to data theft list characteristics of badge cloning attacks describe how impersonation attacks work differentiate between social engineering attack tools list methods of influence that can be used in a social engineering attack summarize the key concepts covered in this course