Social Engineering: Need $11K?… Just Ask a Wal-Mart Employee
2010-09-24
In a recent incident, a man called a 24-hour Wal-Mart in Ohio and explained to an associate that he was with Wal-Mart’s IT department and needed the associate to activate several gift cards, read to him the card numbers and then provide the authorization codes from the back of the cards. The associate willingly did so – and not until $11,000 in online fraud later, did the store realize they had been tricked. This is a great lesson learned to share with your employees (and third-parties). Do your employees understand your organization’s policies on providing/protecting information in different situations? The Wal-Mart caller did notRead More →