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Sep 14, 2010 Social Engineering Dangers

I heard about a social engineering contest at this year's DefCon hacker conference. The write-up said that every company targeted would have failed in a security audit, and these were some large companies, like Google, BP, Proctor and Gamble, Microsoft and more. It truly highlights the "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link" analogy being applied to companies, and I'm sure that the larger the company, the more weak links there are.

Security is a constant battle. It's hard to get right, and it's hard to get people to take is seriously. Most employees don't necessarily think that the information in a company is all that important. In fact, if you look at your databases, how much data in there do you think is really critical?

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