Tabnapping Tutorial- Social Engineering Toolkit Backtrack 5

Social engineering toolkit is complete toolkit that contain relevant tools that will really help penetration tester and ethical hacker in the process of auditing and penetration testing. As discussed before about different aspect of social engineering toolkit on backtrack 5 like, credential harvester attack method and others. For this article I will discuss the famous attack called tab-nabbing (tabnapping).

What Is Tabnapping ?

Tab-nabbing (tabnapping) is a browser side attack in which an attacker takes an advantage of a browser tabs. Now a days most famous browser has a feature called tabs we can open multiple tabs on a same window.

Tabnapping attack is not a new attack and we have discussed this before with video demonstration and with tabnapping protection tips.

Tabnapping Tutorial on SET – Backtrack

The tutorial is very easy for all of the learners, instead of providing images and text we have a created a video tutorial so that you can easily understand these type of attack method.

Requirement

• Operating system (Backtrack 5 used in video)
• SET (social engineering toolkit)
• Mind
• Browser

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