ABOUT SOCIAL ENGENERING AND SOCIAL ENGENERING TOOLKIT

SOCIAL ANGENERING 

Social Engineering is defined as the process of deceiving people into giving away access or confidential information. The act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. While similar to a confidence trick or simple fraud, the term typically applies to trickery or deception for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or computer system access; in most cases the attacker never comes face-to-face with the victim.

SOCIAL ANGENERING TOOLKIT


What Is Social Engineering Toolkit
I will discuss about the usage of social engineering toolkit on backtrack 5 to hack a windows operating system, but before going to the actual tutorial I want to share the basic introduction of social engineering toolkit that would really help for the beginner.
The Social-Engineering Toolkit (SET) is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It’s main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed.