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Social Engineering in the Workplace
An anonymous reader writes "Could a total stranger walk out of your business with thousands of dollars in merchandise without your knowing? Even worse, could they manipulate you into helping them each step along the way?"
FRIST POST!!!!
I got away with tens of thousands of dollars worth of software from the slashdot site. I just downloaded it and NOBODY tried to stop me.
people sometimes loose their badges
"lose".
One "o".
Could a total stranger walk out of your business with thousands of dollars in merchandise without your knowing? Even worse, could they manipulate you into helping them each step along the way?
/offtopic
Offtopic...
But this occurred in the last 24 hours.
I live with some close friends in a 'share-house'. We all have common interests and we enjoy a fair deal of household harmony.
Recently, I did a big favour for a friend by letting him store some of his belongings at my house while he moved.
All of this was pretty normal until last night. Now, one of my room-mates gave me a celeron 750 box to mess around with. I had to throw in some parts myself, but I got it going. Then he asked for it back so he could give it to his grandma (she's still running a pentium 150!).
This morning I woke up to loud cursing coming from the living room. My friend who's storing his stuff here, came in during the middle of the night, unscrewed the case and took the cd-rom(!). Ignoring the dvd, vcr, pentium 4 and other valuables in the living room, only the cd-rom from the box my room-mate was working on was gone.
My room-mate intended to deliver the PC to his grandma today, and he was so annoyed, he promised to 'stab the bastard in the face'. What puzzles me, however, is how he showed such disrespect for other peoples' property, while we happen to be storing his 21" monitor (amoungst other valuables) for him. Doesn't make much sense? We suspect drugs might be involved.
I ran a benchmark on my quantum computer, now I can't find it anywhere!
Scene 1: Level 1 ICT.
After a hard day of documentation
Apple0wn3r: Grrr! My Ti-book keeps on pinging apple.com!
UberApple0wn3r: Just set your firewall so that it doesn't let it through. I've blocked all ICMP traffic into and out of my Ti-book.
Apple0wn3r: I have got my firewall blocking it. It's just that it adds hundreds of lines to my firewall logs every minute.
Anonymosity: Well, how about you turn off your firewall blocking and see what happens?
Apple0wn3r: Ok.
17" Ti-Book: HELP ME STEVE JOBS, YOU'RE MY ONLY HOPE! My owner keeps on browsing the internet while logged in as an Administrative User!
Scene 2: In a corridor at Apple HQ, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California USA.
Steve Job's Custom Ipod starts speaking into his ear
Steve Job's Custom Ipod: Sorry to interrupt the festivities, Steve, but I think we've got a problem. whisper whisper whisper
Steve Jobs: MY GOD! Quick, send an Extraction Team!
Scene 3: Level 1 ICT.
The Apple Extraction Team kick in the windows. They are dressed in stylish white combat fatigues and covered in this bizarre translucent bodyarmour that is full of electronics - sort of like the cybermen after being made over by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
17" Ti-Book: Yay!
The Apple Extraction Team open fire with these bizarre rifles that look like they're made mostly out of transparent plastic, blowing everybody around the 341 Team table into a fine red mist.
Extraction Team Leader: Scoops up the Ti-book Blueberry, this is Grape. The Tangerines are down. Repeat the Tangerines are down. We have the Strawberry and are Lime for immediate exfiltration.
Blueberry:(V.O.) Roger-Roger.
The Apple Extraction Team activate their rocket belts and whisk the 17" Ti-Book off into the night.
Red misty remains of nounderscores: Well, I guess this means I don't have to do that 332 project.
It was at this point that I woke up and wiped the drool off the SADD draft that I was proofreading and realised that it was all a dream.
that's 'business' as use-you-all now a daze? tell 'em robbIE?
when way too much is never enough.
all is not lost?
consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... get ready to see the light.
this stuff is unbreakable, & wwworks on several (more than 3) dimensions. the creators' newclear powered planet/population rescue initiative remains on high crisis alert mode. the risk of overheating (peacing off) the main processors, continues....