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Tag Archives: Social Engineering
No Tech Hacking
April 4, 2008 – 6:00 am
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I recently had the privilege of bring a special contributor, along with a few other brilliant security folks, of Johnny Long’s latest book: No Tech Hacking. All of us in the security profession are familiar with the concepts, and have used them from time to time without realizing it. So what…
Our End Users: The Weakest Link
March 12, 2008 – 6:00 am
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Hackers and professional criminals are like most people; they want to accomplish their goal in the easiest way possible. As we have become better at implementing technical controls, such as hardening servers, more aggressive patching, and deployment of a vast array of security devices /…
ID Thieves: Now Getting Married Under Your Name!
August 27, 2007 – 6:00 am
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The NY Post reports:
Thirty-five couples who were denied marriage licenses in New York City have appealed those denials in the past 10 months on the basis that they were victims of ID theft. The prevailing theory is that thieves used the stolen names to get married for the purposes of green cards…
Businessweek: Business Entities Victims of Identity Theft Too
July 24, 2007 – 6:00 am
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Businessweek reports that businesses may become victims of identity theft too. The scam is called a “business bust-out”:
A criminal rents space in the same building as your company. Then he applies for corporate credit cards using your firm’s name. The application passes a…
Woman Captures Her Own Identity Thief
June 18, 2007 – 7:03 am
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Interesting story:
Lodrick’s heart was pounding. Despite the expensive coat, the Prada bag, the glitter-frame Gucci glasses, there was something not right about the impostor she would later learn was named Maria Nelson.
“She had bad teeth and looked like she hadn’t…