Information Security News: Re: No One at Home

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Forwarded from: Nexus <nexus () patrol i-way co uk>

> [I should also point out all these "out of the office" messages are
> ideal for the social engineer. Then calling the help desk as your
> "assistant" looking for a password reset, to get that Powerpoint file
> for the budget, otherwise we might all be out there looking for a new
> job, and collecting unemployment. :)  - WK]
As well as being very annoying - after one Bugtraq post that spawned a
storm of them, I decided to widen the appeal to stop this annoying
practice ;-) http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/82/275880

Cheers.



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