Posts Tagged ‘Mitnick’
Background Checks May Not Be Enough
The NY Times reported on 2/15/2012 the amazing story of Edward Maher, the suspect in a $1.5M 1993 armored car heist in the UK. Recently apprehended, for almost 20 years he had been on the run in the US. He had a number of regular jobs including, including eight years at Nielsen, the television ratings…
Read MoreMitigate Your Social Engineering Vulnerabilities
Security managers spend significant amounts of time analyzing software vulnerabilities and patching the same. I just looked at the Common Vulnerability and Exposure database (CVE) and see that it now has 47,555 vulnerabilities. But how many security managers have analyzed or cataloged the social engineering vulnerabililties faced by their organizations? I suspect few. Virtually all security managers…
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