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The Spy in Your Server Room

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the social-engineering-for-fun-and-profit dept.

CorinneI writes "Your business's private information may not be as safe as you think — especially when you take into account how many people pass through your office's revolving door on a daily basis. That's why many companies hire TraceSecurity employees to test the security of their systems — operations that usually involve TraceSecurity personnel talking their way into offices in order to gain access to server rooms and sensitive customer information. PC Magazine was invited along to cover a recent TraceSecurity operation."

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  1. Moderated -1 "Blatant advertising" by Bagheera · · Score: 4, Informative

    Penetration testers doing their job: Film at 11.

    Seriously, while it's not an entirely bad article on a penetration test, this is nothing but a shameless plug.

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  2. Re:Slashvertisement! by GroeFaZ · · Score: 4, Informative

    I agree. TFA packaged the company's name 48 times in exactly as many mostly one-sentence paragraphs. Yes, I did count. PCMAG should disclose, did they ask that company for help in that report, or was it the other way around?

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