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+-   No-Fail Identity Theft on Tuesday July 01 2008, @08:18AM ancientribe

Submitted by ancientribe on Tuesday July 01 2008, @08:18AM
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ancientribe writes "A researcher performing social engineering exploits on behalf of several U.S. 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.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=157855&WT.svl=news1_1"
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