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The Social Engineering Toolkit: Creating Fake Web Sites to Own Boxes

In the Linux Distribution BackTrack 4 it has the Social Engineering Toolkit otherwise known as SET. The homepage for SET is http://www.secmaniac.com/ and there is more useful information there. I am particularly impressed by the new java applet function is SET which allow the tester to effectively test how a targeted attack may succeed. Currently SET has two main methods of attack, one is utilizing Metasploit payloads and Java-based attacks by setting up a malicious website (which you can clone whatever one you want) that ultimately delivers your payload. The second method is through file-format bugs and e-mail phishing. The second method supports your own open-mail relay, a customized sendmail open-relay, or Gmail integration to deliver your payloads through e-mail. To see this operation in action Click Here . If you want to install it on your own machine then there will be a tutorial on how to set this up on Saturday.