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"As security systems get increasingly difficult to crack, hackers are turning toward a new source of information: people." Social engineering has almost always
by MiguelHudnandez 14y ago
"As security systems get increasingly difficult to crack, hackers are turning toward a new source of information: people."
Social engineering has almost always been the most productive way to gain access. Jessica McDiarmid does her credibility a disservice by indicating that social engineering is a new development.
- sp332 14y agoFor a while, you could only get info out of humans "retail", that is, one or a few pieces of data at a time. You could easily extract data from a computer "wholesale", thousands or millions of records per breach.
- laserDinosaur 14y agoHe's not saying it's the most productive way to get data, he's saying it's the most productive way to get access.
- MiguelHudnandez 14y agoExactly. However, sp332 may have meant that worms and such are much more effective at getting access to more systems and information quickly, but not in a targeted way.
- aidenn0 14y agosee e.g. Kevin Mitnick for a famous example