Internet users are always posting large amounts of data for anyone with a listening ear to give them attention. There are many blogs due to this. Disgruntled employees may take it to the blogs to put out disturbing facts about an organization. Such a person is a good source of information for a social engineer. All the social engineer needs to do is show concern and use the former employee as a source of sensitive information about the company. That way, the social engineer will gain by getting a new target to attack that has a reliable information source, and the blogger will get the reprieve of having someone to share their frustrations with. Disgruntled employees can go to depths when exposing organizations that they have worked ...
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