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  Book Review: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking

  Posted: March 9th, 2011, 9:13pm CET by samzenpus

  Tags:  security  

  brothke writes "One can sum up all of Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking in two sentences from page 297, where author Christopher Hadnagy writes 'tools are an important aspect of social engineering, but they do not make the social engineer. A tool alone is useless; but the knowledge of how to leverage and utilize that tool is invaluable.' Far too many people think that information security and data protection is simply about running tools, without understanding how to use them. In this tremendous book, Hadnagy shows how crucial the human element is within information security." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.

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