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The Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)

SET is a powerful tool for social-engineering.

THE SOCIAL-ENGINEER TOOLKIT (SET)

The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) was created and written by Dave Kennedy, the founder of TrustedSec. It is an open-source Python-driven tool aimed at penetration testing around Social-Engineering.

It has been presented at large-scale conferences including Blackhat, DerbyCon, Defcon, and ShmooCon. With over two million downloads, it is the standard for social-engineering penetration tests and supported heavily within the security community.

It has over 2 million downloads and is aimed at leveraging advanced technological attacks in a social-engineering type environment. TrustedSec believes that social-engineering is one of the hardest attacks to protect against and now one of the most prevalent. The toolkit has been featured in a number of books including the number one best seller in security books for 12 months since its release, “Metasploit: The Penetrations Tester’s Guide” written by TrustedSec’s founder as well as Devon Kearns, Jim O’Gorman, and Mati Aharoni.

How to Get The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)

Option 1
To download SET, type the following command in Linux:
git clone https://github.com/trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit

Option 2
View on Git.

How to Get Help with The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET)
For bug reports or enhancements, please open an issue on this projects GitHub page.