A lot of hacking is actually social engineering. It’s not hard to get a tech-illiterate person to give up their password, and that’s the softest target for an attack.
I prefer the old “drop a usb in the parking lot”
We have these obligatory online seminars about web security /privacy at work.
Turns out that for some reason, with Privacy Badger enabled, they appear as “passed” instantly. I never saw a single second of these endless seminars.
I tried to tell the IT guy but he couldn’t care less and I suspect he didn’t even know what Privacy Badger actually is
It seems like you don’t need Training then (:
Or maybe he feels that these seminars are for people who don’t use things like privacy badger.
now I want to know what privacy badger is amd I’m too lazy to google it…
It’s a browser extension that does privacy stuff for you.
A good portion of the movie Hackers was social engineering. That’s how Mitnick got into a lot of systems as well. Why search for vulnerabilities in apps when people are much easier to manipulate.
Hacker voice: “I’m in”
Looks at overly complicated industry software he’s never even heard of before
“I’m out”
We get fake phishing emails that are actually from IT and if we don’t recognize and report them, we get a talking-to. It’s a good way of keeping employees vigilant.
