Social Engineering and Human Hacking

Discover the psychological tricks and techniques used by human hackers to exploit your personal emotions, traits, and digital behavior patterns in order to deliberately compromise information security. This textbook offers a playful and engaging approach to understanding how social engineering works and how to effectively defend yourself against it. You will also learn how to sharpen your perception, control your emotions, and develop effective defense strategies to protect your data and your organization from attackers' tactics. Equipped with psychological thinking models and counter-strategies, you will be ready to face the challenges of the modern security landscape. Erfan Koza holds a PhD in engineering, is a researcher, lecturer, and security expert specializing in critical infrastructure, human hacking, and human-centered security. Asiye Öztürk is a scientist and researcher, lecturer, and security expert specializing in critical infrastructures, human hacking, and human-centered security. Michael Willer is the managing director of Human Risk Consulting GmbH, a social engineering (SE) penetration tester, and a keynote speaker on human hacking/social engineering. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

Erfan Koza holds a PhD in engineering, is a researcher, lecturer, and security expert specializing in critical infrastructure, human hacking, and human-centered security.
Asiye Öztürk is a scientist and researcher, lecturer, and security expert specializing in critical infrastructures, human hacking, and human-centered security.
Michael Willer is the managing director of Human Risk Consulting GmbH, a social engineering (SE) penetration tester, and a keynote speaker on human hacking/social engineering.