Security Basics: RE: The Greatest Military Social Engineering Attack Since The Trojan's Horse?

["Daniel I. Didier" <ddidier () netsecureia com>]

Jon,
I'm interested in this topic but I don't know much about it.  Can you
share with us what you know about the social engineering aspects of this
attack?  I too am very interested.

Thanks,
Dan

www.NetSecureIA.com


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> Subject: The Greatest Military Social Engineering Attack Since The
> Trojan's Horse?
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> By now I am sure you are all aware of the Columbian military's freeing
> of the FARC hostages. What I find most interesting is that this
appears
> to be a purely social engineering attack.
>
> The English language media have not provided that much detail thus far
> about the social engineering aspects of the operation. If anyone has
> more information regarding how the rescue was social engineered,
please
> post it to this thread.
>
> Just based on what I have seen thus far, this may turn out to be one
of
> the greatest social engineering attacks in military history.
>
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