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Awesome Social Engineering

A curated list of awesome social engineering resources.

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Online Courses

Udemy - Learn Social Engineering from Scratch

PacktPub - Learn Social Engineering From Scratch by Zaid Sabih

Cybrary - Social Engineering and Manipulation

Free Course

In 3 lists

Capture the Flag

Social-Engineer.com - DEFCON SECTF

Psychology Books

Artful Persuasion – How to command attention, Change minds and influence People – Harry Mills

What is every BODY saying – Joe Navarro

Conflict, power and persuasion – Ben Hoffman

Dealing with difficult people – McGraw Hill

Get anyone to do anything – David J Lieberman

How to start a conversation and make friends - Don Gabor

The art of Psychological Warfare – Michael T Stevens

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene

The Psychology Book

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change - Charles Duhigg

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Paperback – Robert B., PhD Cialdini

Emotions Revealed: Understanding Faces and Feelings - Prof Paul Ekman

The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions: A Handbook - Gisli H. Gudjonsson

Mindfucking: A Critique of Mental Manipulation - Colin McGinn

Social Engineering Books

Human Hacking – Chris Hadnagy

Learn Social Engineering – Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking - Chris Hadnagy

Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking

Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security - Christopher Hadnagy, Dr. Ekman Paul

Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails - Christopher Hadnagy, Michele Fincher,…

Social Engineering in IT Security: Tools, Tactics, and Techniques, Sharon Conheady

No Tech Hacking - Johnny Long, Kevin D. Mitnick

Low Tech Hacking: Street Smarts for Security Professionals - Jack Wiles, Terry Gudaitis, Jennifer Jabbusch, Russ Rogers

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security, Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker - Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big…

The Social Engineer's Playbook: A Practical Guide to Pretexting - Jeremiah Talamantes

Learn Social Engineering - Erdal Ozkaya

COMMUNITIES

Abstract Security

community od Discord that is focused around Physical Security and it has many members that are in the buissness of Physical Security.

Documentation

The Social-Engineer portal

Everything you need to know as a social engineer is in this site. You will find podcasts, resources, framework, informations about next events, blog ecc...

Layer 8 conference and podcast

Conference and podcast that is focused on OSINT and Social Engineering.

Tools

Tor

The free software for enabling onion routing online anonymity

In 14 listsDetails

SET

The Social-Engineer Toolkit from TrustedSec

In 5 listsDetails

Gophish

Open-Source Phishing Framework

In 5 listsDetails

King Phisher

Phishing campaign toolkit used for creating and managing multiple simultaneous phishing attacks with custom email and server content.

In 4 lists

wifiphisher

Automated phishing attacks against Wi-Fi networks

In 3 lists

PhishingFrenzy

Phishing Frenzy is an Open Source Ruby on Rails application that is leveraged by penetration testers to manage email phishing campaigns.

Evilginx2

MITM attack framework used for phishing credentials and session cookies from any Web service

In 6 listsDetails

Lucy Phishing Server

(commercial) tool to perform security awareness trainings for employees including custom phishing campaigns, malware attacks etc. Includes many useful attack templates as well as training materials to raise security awareness.

Miscellaneous >Slides

OWASP Presentation of Social Engineering

OWASP

Weaponizing data science for social engineering: Automated E2E spear phishing on Twitter

Defcon 23

Using Social Engineering Tactics For Big Data Espionage

RSA Conference Europe 2012

Miscellaneous >Videos

Chris Hadnagy - 7 Jedi Mind Tricks Influence Your Target without a Word

Robert Anderson - US Interrogation Techniques and Social Engineering

Ian Harris - Understanding Social Engineering Attacks with Natural Language Processing

Chris Hadnagy - Social Engineering for Fun and Profit

Chris Hadnagy - Decoding humans live

DerbyCon 2015

This is how hackers hack you using simple social engineering

Miscellaneous >Articles

The Limits of Social Engineering

MIT, Technology Review

The 7 Best Social Engineering Attacks Ever

DarkReading

Social Engineering: Compromising Users with an Office Document

Infosec Institute

The Persuasion Reading List

Scott Adams' Blog

How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities

Sophie Daniel

Miscellaneous >Movies

Tiger Team (TV series)

Catch Me If You Can

Inception

The Sting

Sneakers

Action/Thriller

In 2 lists

OSINT

Awesome OSINT

Awesome list of OSINT

In 4 listsDetails

OSINT Framework

Collection of various OSInt tools broken out by category.

In 2 lists

NetBootcamp OSINT Tools

A collection of OSINT links and custom Web interfaces to other services such as Facebook Graph Search and various paste sites.

In 2 lists

Automating OSINT blog

A blog about OSINT curated by Justin Seitz, the same author of BHP.

XRay

XRay is a tool for recon, mapping and OSINT gathering from public networks.

In 4 listsDetails

Buscador

A Linux Virtual Machine that is pre-configured for online investigators

In 2 lists

Maltego

Proprietary software for open source intelligence and forensics, from Paterva.

theHarvester

E-mail, subdomain and people names harvester

In 6 listsDetails

creepy

A geolocation OSINT tool

In 2 lists

exiftool.rb

A ruby wrapper of the exiftool, a open-source tool used to extract metadata from files.

metagoofil

Metadata harvester

In 4 listsDetails

Google Hacking Database

a database of Google dorks; can be used for recon

In 6 listsDetails

Google-Dorks

Common google dorks and others you prolly don't know

GooDork

Command line go0gle dorking tool

In 2 lists

dork-cli

Command-line Google dork tool.

In 2 lists

Shodan

Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices

In 12 listsDetails

recon-ng

A full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python

github-dorks

CLI tool to scan github repos/organizations for potential sensitive information leak

In 3 lists

vcsmap

A plugin-based tool to scan public version control systems for sensitive information

In 2 lists

Spiderfoot

multi-source OSINT automation tool with a Web UI and report visualizations

In 2 lists

DataSploit

OSINT visualizer utilizing Shodan, Censys, Clearbit, EmailHunter, FullContact, and Zoomeye behind the scenes.

In 2 lists

snitch

information gathering via dorks

In 3 lists

Geotweet_GUI

Track geographical locations of tweets and then export to google maps.

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Awesome DeepSeek Harness (DSH) Plugin

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Awesome Guidelines

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Programming style, best practices, and coding conventions.

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Awesome Prompts

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Curated list of chatgpt prompts from the top-rated GPTs in the GPTs Store. Prompt Engineering, prompt attack & prompt protect. Advanced Prompt Engineering papers.

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A curated list of awesome READMEs

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