That's why up to 50% (or maybe more, depends on who you ask) of a hack is based on social engineering . . .
From: Andrew S. Baker Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How to be a better spy... The human element is almost always the weakest link... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9094 I saw that, too. One claim I found interesting: The spies used whole-disk encryption, but the FBI was still able to retrieve data from the disk because they found the password written on a piece of paper near-by. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
