IT personnel

Is there a better target to start with than the person responsible for ensuring the safety of organizational data? Each year, many IT staffers get attacked by hackers with the hopes of getting their high-privileged accounts in networks. With access to these accounts, data from the organization can easily be stolen and internal communications can be leaked outside the organization. The IT staff of big organizations often find themselves being targeted with phishing emails with malicious links of which they are aware and can easily avoid. However, they are not half as ready to repel a social engineering attack. Social engineers have multiple tricks up their sleeves to get information about IT staff that they can leverage for a ...

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