Social engineering trumps Wal-Mart customer service

This year's social engineering 'capture the flag' competition at the DefCon hackers' conference was won by a contestant who does social engineering for a living. In the course of a 20 minute phone call, he successfully fooled a Wal Mart employee into revealing all the pieces of information he was after, even getting him to visit a website to 'complete a survey'. Read about the con here. Aside from the Wal Mart story itself, the comments on the CNN article are just as telling. Even allowing for the fact that only certain people were inspired enough to want to read... Read more →