Kevin Mitnick (http://www.freekevin.com/) was excellent at human engineering hacks. He certainly wasn't the best or the only one doing it. Those types of hacks work best when you know as much as possible about the target entity.. Finding out about organizational structure and information about employees makes these types of hacks much easier. Heck, there are people who get paid to do these kinds of hacks to test security systems.
Building on the responses of others: 2 months later Mike gets a phone call... Mike, how ya doin? My name is Fred Smith, I was hired in 3 days ago and Jim Standin told me you were the guy to contact about getting me an NT and e-mail account set up. Oh.. By the way, how was the trip to SE Asia? I'm working in the accounting group, so can you make sure my logon script maps the drive for the accounting group. ------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Scharff - MCSE, Exchange MVP 512.652.4500 x244 Senior Sales Engineer MessageOne ------------------------------------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: Andersson Mikael (SIX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:21 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Ouf Of Office > > > What kind of security risk from a human engineering > standpoint do you mean? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: den 21 mars 2002 20:42 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Ouf Of Office > > > It does, but that doesn't mean it couldn't induce a mail > loop. Imagine a help desk ticketing system which uses a > unique e-mail address for every e-mail message received and > autoreplies to the sender. > > More importantly is a security risk from a human engineering > standpoint. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andersson Mikael (SIX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:24 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Ouf Of Office > > > > > > Does Out Of Office responses to the internet really loop? > > > > I believed that OOF only replied once to every mailaddress!? > > Anyone who knows for sure? > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
