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September 7th, 2006

Hacking Still Can’t Outdo Stupidity for Data Leaks

Can you believe this the provincial government in British Columbia has managed to auction off a set of data tapes containing people’s social insurance numbers, dates of birth and medical records among other information.

The provincial government has auctioned off computer tapes containing thousands of highly sensitive records, including information about people’s medical conditions, their social [...]

July 7th, 2006

‘Free’ USB Drives Defeat Company Security

This is an excellent case of Social Engineering, you could also consider it playing on human greed/ignorance/stupidity.
Whatever you want to label it really
USB drives are a real security risk..

We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard on the [...]