SOCIAL ENGINEERING AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING TOOLKIT (SET)

• Social Engineering

Engineering Social is acquirement secret communique or information sensitive by cheating the information owner. Engineering Social generally pass Internet or telephone. Social Engineering represent one of the method used by hacker to obtain get information about its goals, by asking for that direct information to other party or victim having that information.

Engineering x'self concentration Social enchaining to be weakened computer network system, that is human being. Like soybean cake us, no computer system which not entangle human being interaction. And is hard nya again, interpose this security have the character of universally,not depended platform, operating system, protocol, software and or hardware. Its meaning,every system have same weakness human being factor. Each and everyone having to access into system physically threat, even if the people not the included in policy security which have been compiled. Like other hacking method, engineering social also need preparation, even most work cover preparation itself.


At many reference, human being factor assessed as enchaining feeblest in a security system. A good security system, will becoming not good for if handled by less administrator competence. Besides, usually a network which complex enough there are a lot of less understanding user problem of security or insufficient care to the effect that that. Take example a company, a admin network have applied policy security better, but there user disregarding the problem of that kemanan. For example the user use password which is easy to be guessed, forget logout when going home, or swimmingly give to access to its other friend or even to its client. This matter can cause a attacker exploit the the gap and steal or destroy important data company.

• Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is specifically designed to perform advanced attacks against the human element. Originally this tool was designed to be released with the social-engineer launch and has quickly became a standard tool in a penetration testers arsenal. SET was written by David Kennedy (ReL1K) and with a lot of help from the community in incorporating attacks never before seen in an exploitation toolset. The attacks built into the toolkit are designed to be targeted an focused attacks against a person or organization used during a penetration test. 

We can use Social Enginering Toolkit ( SET) in OS backtrack 5.