No-Fail Identity Theft – Live and In Person

ancientribe writes "A researcher performing social-engineering exploits on behalf of several US banks and other firms in the past year has 'stolen' thousands of identities with a 100 percent success rate. He and his team have posed as investigators for the FDIC (among other things), and numerous times have literally been able to walk out the door with pilfered identities. The reason: organizations are typically so focused on online ID theft that they've forgotten how easy it is for a criminal to socially engineer his way into a bank branch or office and physically hack it."

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[oahazmatt]

I love the ad for LifeLock at the top of the page. Didn't the CEO just fall victim to identity theft?

Re:A Wise Man

[clone53421]

Duck tape?

Re:The biggest exploit for any system

[Walt Dismal]

Your mission, Mr. Phelps, is to find a pointy-hair boss too stupid to know better, and con him. Failing that, any sheeplike underling is okay too. If you or any or your Slashdot Impossible Mission Force (SIMF) is caught or killed, the secretary will disavow your actions. Oh, and before the mission, would you fill out this little insurance card? In case of your death, I get a new house.

Re:The biggest exploit for any system

[kalirion]

The solutions is simple then - remove the human element.

Re:The biggest exploit for any system

[Godji]

Is that you, Bender?!