Social Engineers work in teams to harness the power of information

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2840953/social-engineering/social-engineers-work-in-teams-to-harness-the-power-of-information.html

By Steve Ragan
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CSO Online
Oct 30, 2014

Proving once again that information viewed as harmless can often enable an 
attacker, the contestants in this years Social Engineering Capture the 
Flag (SECTF) contest at DEF CON 22 worked in teams of two in order to 
collect vital information from some of the nation's largest companies.

Social-Engineer.org has released the final report form the SECTF contest 
held at DEF CON 22 this summer in Las Vegas.

As always, the goal of the contest is awareness, using live demonstrations 
to provide actual examples of the techniques and tactics used by malicious 
attackers.

The only difference is that none of the contestants were actually causing 
harm; there is a strict rule against victimization. If that wasn't the 
case, then some of the companies in this year's contest would have had an 
additional layer of problems to deal with.

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