Wonder how your company would hold up against a team of hackers? At this year’s DEF CON Hacking Conference, held last month, there were some interesting surprises.
Give them 25 Minutes, Your Employees will Offer Valuable Company Information
The conference, which brings together accomplished social engineering hackers, hosts a contest where hackers target 17 major corporations over the course of the two-day event, including Google, Wal-Mart, Symantec, Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Coca-Cola. Contestants sit in plexiglass booths, with an audience watching as they call up company employees, trying to get them to give up information (in 25 minutes or less).
Though contestants aren’t allowed to ask for sensitive information like passwords or social security numbers, they do try to get information that could be misused, like information about what operating system, antivirus software and browser their victims used, as well as trying to get access to unauthorized web pages.
via DEF CON Hacking Conference: How Safe Is Your Information?.
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