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- Welcome to module eight,
Social Engineering Fundamentals.

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Social engineering is a
psychological manipulation of humans

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into performing actions

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or disclosing confidential information.

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Different social engineering
techniques have been used

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by attackers to exploit the weakest link,

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which is us, humans.

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In this module, you will learn

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different social engineering
attack techniques.