Security
How Secure is Secure?
07/08/10 09:18
Color us shocked at this report of what it takes to penetrate corporate security :
A few companies in the Fortune 500 need to upgrade their Web browsers. And while they're at it, a little in-house training on social engineering wouldn't be a bad idea, either.
Social engineering hackers -- people who trick employees into doing and saying things that they shouldn't -- took their best shot at the Fortune 500 during a contest at Defcon Friday and showed how easy it is to get people to talk, if only you tell the right lie.
The Defcon and Black Hat security conferences are taking place in Las Vegas this week.
The last we knew, most people in a corporation would give you their passwords for a Snickers bar. So you know that corporate security you paid a bundle for, thinking it was the best thing this side of Fort Knox?
Yeah... well, not so much.
