Re: Password Pride - A Humorous Vulnerability

["Snoopy Brown" <freefalled () gmail com>]

Hello =)

> I think it is your "trust-provoking" English accent!
>
> The biggest challenge is the human condition where people are always "depending on the kindness of strangers". (Taken from 
> "A Streetcar named
> Desire")
True. Too true.

> We are in an industry where mistrust, despair, and skepticism are
more beneficial >than sheer kindness and helpfulness.  The term
"social engineering" is false. It
> should be called "social exploitation"
> as the attacker is merely taking advantage basic human nature.
IMO, social exploitation (/engineering) can take on various forms...
many of them, going against a person's 'nature'.
Social engineering (/explitation) is one of my favorite security
facets... working with people.
I mean, have you ever told someone in IRC to "press Alt+F4 to do that"
then laughed out loud as a "dumbNuts has logged out" message appears?
Or the female lawyer's secretary, that had (probably still has) all
sorts of her passwords, neatly printed out and attached to the inside
of a cabinet's door...
Or her boss, that would save everything into a fDrive (flashDrive) for
'security reasons', then leave the little thing inside his 'locked
drawer'... a drawer made out glass.
People are fun.

> So, what was his password?
herb420chronic4ever
or something along those lines...

> -Paul Moore
>  Security & Business Continuity
>  FedEx Express Corporation
FedEx, eh?
I get happy everytime I see the FedEx truck... as it probably means
stuff from NewEgg is arriving. Yum!
=))
>

Have a great day people !!