Date: August 7th, 2007

IRS Employees Easy Targets For Social Engineering Attempts

7 August, 2007 (22:22) | Identity Theft | No comments

Now this should make you sleep better at night: In a recent audit, almost 60 percent of IRS employees that were targeted disclosed their computer access information to an auditor who was using ’social engineering’ techniques in an attempt to extract information from the employee.
Social engineering is different from so many of the high-profile [...]