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Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-what-you-say dept.

dinscott writes "During Social Engineer Capture the Flag contest, one of the most prominent and popular annual events at DEF CON 21, a pool of 10 men and 10 women, from diverse backgrounds and experience levels, tested their social engineering abilities against 10 of the biggest global corporations, including Apple, Boeing, Exxon, General Dynamics and General Electric. The complete results of the competition are in, and they don't bode well for businesses."

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  1. Reduce unemployment today! by bob_super · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good morning citizen, this is the brand-new NSA call center...

  2. Re:complete results? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    that's not news.

  3. Re:complete results? by gnasher719 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If those are the complete results that was a pretty short and piss poor competition. If "We got the browser and OS" is social engineering then my apache logs are 1337 hax0rz. This article must be a click farm because it sure doesn't have any actual content. The real news here is "slashdot editors drunk at work, approve spam"

    I wonder if they found out what browser and OS are used at Apple and at Microsoft...

  4. Re:complete results? by BitZtream · · Score: 3, Funny

    They both use Chrome.

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  5. The bonus flag by guanxi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can you socially engineer thousands of technically sophisticated Slashdot users into downloading an infected PDF?