Phishing Dark Waters

Phishing Dark Waters
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Critical and Creative Thinking: A Guide for Teachers reveals ways to develop a capacity to think both critically and creatively in practical and productive ways. Explains why critical and creative thinking complement each other with clear examples Provides a practical toolkit of cognitive techniques for generating and evaluating ideas using both creative and critical thinking Enriches the discussion of creative and critical intersections with brief “inter-chapters” based on the thinking habits of Leonardo da Vinci Offers an overview of current trends in critical and creative thinking, with applications across a spectrum of disciplines

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Phishing Dark Waters

The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious E-mails

Christopher Hadnagy

Michele Fincher


Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious E-mails

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I dedicate this book to a few people who made it possible. My amazing wife, Areesa, you are one of the most patient, kind, and wise people I have ever met. I hold on to the dream of an eternal future.

Michele, thankfully Ping made that referral a few years ago. Without you this is not possible.

Dave, as I write these words, I can't believe how far we have come. Thank you for your support.

– Christopher Hadnagy

This is for my husband, the most beautiful soul in the universe and ruler of all my domains.

And to Chris; thank you for giving me a job and believing in me.

– Michele Fincher

Introduction

“There was no such thing as a fair fight. All vulnerabilities must be exploited.”

– Cary Caffrey

Social engineering. Those two words have become a staple in most IT departments and, after the last couple years, in most of corporate America, too. One statistic states that more than 60 percent of all attacks had the “human factor” as either the crux of or a major piece of the attack. Analysis of almost all of the major hacking attacks from the past 12 months reveals that a large majority involved social engineering – a phishing e-mail, a spear phish, or a malicious phone call (vishing).

I have written two books analyzing and dissecting the psychology, physiology, and historical aspects of con men, scammers, and social engineers. And in doing so, I have found that one recent theme comes up, and that is e-mail. Since its beginning, e-mail has been used by scammers and social engineers to dupe people out of credentials, money, information, and much more.



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