Written by Stephen Bentfield Today’s Washington Post includes a front page article that should serve as a warning to any employer about increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks that exploit one key vulnerability that is essentially immune to technical solutions: their employees. Social engineering attacks work by exploiting the natural human tendency to trust and thereby… Continue Reading
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