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vegplot

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 15 6:48 pm Post subject: This social engineering trick breaking into email accounts
This social engineering trick makes breaking into email accounts scarily easy... https://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/06/19/this-social-engineering-trick-makes-breaking-into-email-accounts-scarily-easy/

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 15 8:07 pm Post subject:
clever,i tend to ignore any such requests .if a service goes off i then get pro active to restore it .

vegplot

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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 15 9:44 pm Post subject:
You could always just ask people for their passwords... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRMrEfAIiI

dpack

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:02 am Post subject:
i spose they leave the doorkey under the mat as well

jema
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:21 am Post subject:
Nasty but they do need to have your mobile.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:26 am Post subject:
could an auto dialler gather enough mobile numbers to pay for itself? even with a low hit rate and a moderate gain from each hit i would think it worthwhile if one was so inclined

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:34 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

Nasty but they do need to have your mobile.

All you need is a honey-pot form and ask for it. I discovered a fake PayPal login site last month (reported and now closed down) which did exactly that. People are conditioned in entering their email and mobile on a form...

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:36 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

could an auto dialler gather enough mobile numbers to pay for itself?

even with a low hit rate and a moderate gain from each hit i would think it worthwhile if one was so inclined

You need the mobile number *and* the email address of the victim. Autodialler won't help, I should think.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:36 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

could an auto dialler gather enough mobile numbers to pay for itself?

even with a low hit rate and a moderate gain from each hit i would think it worthwhile if one was so inclined

You need the mobile number *and* the email address of the victim. Autodialler won't help, I should think.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 10:39 am Post subject:

jema wrote:

Nasty but they do need to have your mobile.

And your email address.
Neither is hard to get hold of, but not so easy to tie the two together... although there are plenty of sites out there that will ask you for them.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 11:18 am Post subject:
quite a lot of folk have both on their contact details on social media and trade adverts

Nick

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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 11:29 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

quite a lot of folk have both on their contact details on social media and trade adverts

Yep, as with almost all security breaches, human action is the weak point.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 11:47 am Post subject:
yep the human is usually the weakest link.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 1:03 pm Post subject:
I think you mean 'organic interface'.

dpack

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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 15 1:08 pm Post subject:
you are borg and i claim my �5

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