Actually my favourite quotes from that article are: #1 "It turned out that Goldenberg, who was rapidly promoted to vice president before his March 2008 arrest, had used his knowledge of her and her family —* including pet names and children's birth dates *— to guess e-mail passwords."
#2 "Our business has been changed forever," Suttenberg said. "*Customers that used to trust us with information are now afraid to tell us anything for fear of being compromised."* If you're using the things described in #1 for passwords you're going to end up with a lot of #2.... ;) On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > This article shows the power of doing social media and meta data > reconnaissance on your company/clients. If a sales exec can guess > passwords then hackers should be able to. > > > http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZwj2Dea2skHEQ9tImHyTgDhacOAD992J1T00 > > One line that stands out for me is: > > "The victims estimate he cost them more than $10 million in lost > business and security-improvement expenses." > > Because of his nasty hacking they had to spend money on security > improvements. > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com >
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