Kelly Jackson Higgins writes:
In the end, it may have been a foreshadowing of sorts: The team assigned to squeeze potentially sensitive information from Home Depot employees in cold calls during this year’s Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) competition at DEF CON 22 won the famed contest.
The social engineering competition held last month in Las Vegas was in no way directly related to a report yesterday that Home Depot may have suffered a massive data breach; the home improvement chain was still investigating suspicious “activity” as of this posting. However, it was among a group of major US retailers that fell to multiple social engineering tactics during the competition.
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