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Social Engineering Is Still An Effective Fraudster Method

Technology continues to advance, security tools continue to emerge, but the good 'ol tried and true social engineering exploit is still as effective as it ever was.  I found an article published today, "Hook, line and sinker," very interesting.  It describes how computer-based attacks, such as phishing exploits, are being combined with social engineering. 

There are some good stories within this article to not only help demonstrate the need for a comprehensive information security and privacy training and awareness program that includes information on identifying and not falling victim to social engineering attacks, but they could also be used within your training and awareness efforts.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on June 28, 2006 5:26 PM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.