Social Engineering and Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)

Social  Engineering is the practice of learning and obtaining valuable information by exploiting human vulnerabilities, that is deceptions where a attacker to get information by request the information directly to the victim or other people have that informations. social engineering happends because we are social creatures and our nature makes us vulnerable to social engineering attacks. and that become weakest link in security defense on computer network system.

Social Engineering Toolkit is a packet that design to help doing social engineering, that help to prepare the most effective way of exploiting the client - side application vulnerabilities and make a fascinating attempt to capture the target's confidential information (for example, e-mail passwords). Some of the most efficient and useful attack methods employed by SET include, targeted phishing e-mails with a malicious file attachment, Java applet attacks, browser-based exploitation, gathering website credentials, creating infectious portable media , mass-mailer attacks, and other similar multi-attack web vectors. Thiscombination of attack methods provides a powerful platform to utilize and select the most persuasive technique that could perform an advanced attack against the human element.