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If it’s really a social engineering attack then I think it happened because everyone is working remotely and it is easier to perform social engineering attacks
by dsr12 6y ago
If it’s really a social engineering attack then I think it happened because everyone is working remotely and it is easier to perform social engineering attacks. Maybe this incident will have impact on their long term remote work plans.
- harryh 6y agoI dunno why you're getting downvoted. I think this idea makes some sense. If you're doing something shady to your employer, it seems to me that it would feel a lot safer to do so while working from your home office by yourself then when sitting right in the middle of an office pod with other coworkers.
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- minimaxir 6y agoIt might make it harder to stop once it's in progress since you can't physically remove the employee from their workstation.
- Bluecobra 6y agoI agree, also remote employees might not have the same layers of security as they do if they were in the office. For example, there could be a firewall that blocks malicious code at the office or someone is logging into the VPN on their home computer that is infected with malware.
- derwiki 6y agoI don’t work at Twitter, but at my company, Duo restricts us from sensitive web apps while on personal devices.
- un_montagnard 6y agoI wouldn't be too surprised to learn that some people that are working from home are actually working from a coffee shop (in countries where they have re-opened obviously) or other public places with little to none protection against social engineering attack.