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Human Errors Fuel Hacking as Government Test Shows Nothing Prevents Idiocy – Bloomberg

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out. Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots …
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Human Errors, Idiocy Fuel Hacking – Bloomberg

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Tactics such as spear-phishing — sending a limited number of rigged e-mails to a select group of recipients — rely on human weaknesses like trust, laziness or even hubris. That’s what happened in March, when attackers used a clever ruse to exploit …
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