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sales exec hacks company


From: dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:02:42 +0100

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


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