Social Engineers Veil Themselves In A Cloak

Garbage Can Provide Important Details For Hackers: Names, Telephone Numbers, A Company's Internal Jargon.

I Obtained Confidential Information In The Same Way Government Employees Did, And I Did It All Without Even Touching A Computer. ... I Was So Successful With This Line Of Attack That I Rarely Had To Go Towards A Technical Attack.

Companies Spend Millions Of Dollars On Firewalls And Secure Access Devices, And It's Money Wasted Because None Of These Measures Address The Weakest Link In The Security Chain: The People Who Use, Administer And Operate Computer Systems

New Security Loopholes Are Constantly Popping Up Because Of Wireless Networking. The Cat-and-mouse Game Between Hackers And System Administrators Is Still In Full Swing.

Social Engineering Is Using Manipulation, Influence And Deception To Get A Person, A Trusted Insider Within An Organization, To Comply With A Request, And The Request Is Usually To Release Information Or To Perform Some Sort Of Action Item That Benefits That Attacker.