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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Social engineering

Lately hackers have found a new non high tech way to access senstive information. It is called social engineering. This is when a hacker poses to be someone from a certain company to access certain paswords to gain access to senstive information. Be aware when that all the technology firewalls, spam blockers, virus protection can only do so much but the end user is the first line of defense.

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