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Defcon contest shows corporate workers can be tricked into revealing company secrets

July 31, 2010 Tech, game View Comments

Social engineering is the (morally vague) art of tricking someone out of their company’s technical secrets just by talking to them. It often involves deceit and relies on the fact that the weakest link in any computer security system is a human. At Defcon , one of the Capture the Flag contests performed by the attendees involved launching social engineering “attacks,” where contestants were asked to obtain the answers to a bunch of questions that probed into a company’s security defenses

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