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  • Council social engineering test exposes flaws

    Kingston City Council in Victoria recently conducted a social engineering experiment to see how its staff would react to a stranger trying to gain access to the server room; the exercise revealed, and helped fix, serious flaws in staff awareness.

  • What's your number, Kevin Mitnick?

    Elite ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick says most of the social engineering attacks using fraudulent identities that made him famous could have been stopped if his targets had just asked for his phone number.

  • 'Human firewall' a crucial defence: Mitnick

    Companies can better protect their confidential information by creating an incident response department to deal with suspicious queries, said infamous ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick.

  • Better security not about tech: Mitnick

    Companies eager to tighten up their information security perimeters should focus not on technology but on teaching their employees how to say 'no', says ex-hacker done good Kevin Mitnick.

  • Herbless the hacker goes legitimate

    A UK hacker who made a name for himself cracking commercial Web servers and posting political messages on corporate sites, says that he/she is now keen to move into legitimate security work.

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