Monday, May 14, 2012

Security Professionals Aren’t Immune from Dumbass Moves

Spammers and fraudsters often wiggle into our lives through “social engineering,” pretending to be someone that we think we know.

What are some of the security tricks you’ve fallen for? Fess up in the comments below.
It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book and yet it’s so effective. Guess that’s why it keeps resurfacing. We’ve all seen the bad guys dish out a range of schemes over the years, from using nefarious links embedded in an email to, more recently, social media phishing attacks using these same lethal links in Facebook messages and Tweets.

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