Week 8

On our eighth session on ethical hacking and penetration testing, our main topic was about social engineering. Social engineering is one of the most effective ways to start on the process of penetration testing. It could give out possibly important information that would be useful for penetration testing. We learnt about the process of performing social engineering and what are the essential information we would need. There are a lot of tools we could use to perform social engineerings such as SET (Social Engineering Toolkit) and CUPP (Common User Password Profiler. We were also asked to make our own site cloner project and it would be our Lab 4 assignment

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