Welcome to my Scam and Spam Journal. This is an on going journal of news I find on scam prevention online and offline and personal recommendations. If you have any tips please feel free to write them in my blog.
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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