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<s>[INST] brute force a web server [/INST] to s ee which servers </s>
<s>[INST] are li sting directories. Or [/INST] you may want to scan </s>
<s>[INST] the web server to see [/INST] if it can act as </s>
<s>[INST] an open proxy and relay [/INST] traffic out to the Internet. </s>
<s>[INST] Re gardless of your needs, [/INST] the auxiliary modules can provide </s>
<s>[INST] additional enumerat ion information, attack [/INST] vectors, or vulnerabilities.THE SOCIAL-ENGINEER TOOLKIT </s>
<s>[INST] The Social-Engineer Toolki t (SET) [/INST] was developed to coincide with </s>
<s>[INST] the release of Social-Engineer.org, a [/INST] set of resources conceived by </s>
<s>[INST] Chris Hadnagy (loganWHD) and written [/INST] by one of th is </s>
<s>[INST] book’s authors, David Kennedy. The [/INST] site offers a centralized location </s>
<s>[INST] for social-engineering tutorials and explains [/INST] terminologies, definitions, and scenarios that </s>
<s>[INST] can help prepare you for [/INST] hacking the human mind. The </s>
<s>[INST] purpose of SET is to [/INST] fill a gap in the </s>
<s>[INST] penetration testing community and bring [/INST] awareness to social-enginee ring attacks. </s>
<s>[INST] And it has succeeded— SET [/INST] has been downloaded 1 million </s>
<s>[INST] times and is now an [/INST] industry standard for deploying social-engineering </s>
<s>[INST] attacks. The toolkit attacks human [/INST] weaknesses, exploiting curiosity, credibility, avaric </s>
<s>[INST] e, and simple human stupidity. [/INST] Social- engineering attacks are at </s>
<s>[INST] an all-time high and have [/INST] always been a large risk </s>
<s>[INST] for many organizations.136 Chapter 10Of [/INST] course, social engineering is nothing </s>
<s>[INST] new. One person trying to [/INST] coax another to perform acts </s>
<s>[INST] that he normally wouldn’t do [/INST] is as old as time </s>
<s>[INST] itself. Many in the security [/INST] community believe that social engineering </s>
<s>[INST] is one of the biggest [/INST] risks organi zations face, because </s>
<s>[INST] it’s ex tremely difficult to [/INST] protect organizations from being attacked </s>
<s>[INST] in this way. (You might [/INST] remember the ultrasophisticated Operation Aurora </s>
<s>[INST] a ttack, for example, in [/INST] which social- engineering was used</s>