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What's really bad about stories like this is that social engineering is not new. I recall working on closing some of these types of loops at companies 10 years
by silverbax88 14y ago
What's really bad about stories like this is that social engineering is not new. I recall working on closing some of these types of loops at companies 10 years ago.
- marquis 14y agoWhen I was reading this, I was thinking the same thing. Are the IT leads who put these systems in place forgetting the 90s?
- nicholassmith 14y agoWhen the Wired author was hacked and it was first posted here about half of us jumped on 'shoulder surfed', 'is it possible to brute force' and half a dozen decent technical explanations. I think often people are now looking for the next over the top attack and forgetting the simplest tricks are often the most successful.
- rfugger 14y agoYou're assuming that anyone in these large organizations has enough control and pays enough attention to dictate how entire systems work. Usually it's more of a patchwork that gets developed over time by many people, none of whom sees the whole picture.
- jere 14y agoYea. Kevin Mitnick wrote "The Art of Deception", which is specifically about social engineering, 10 years ago from next month. And he'd been using such techniques for decades.