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

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

As a follow up to this topic, I found the following:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7486896.stm

Quite an interesting story!

Dan
www.NetSecureIA.com

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> On Behalf Of Daniel I. Didier
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 11:04 AM
> To: Jon.Kibler () aset com; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: The Greatest Military Social Engineering Attack Since The
> Trojan's Horse?
>
> 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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> > To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > 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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