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Mystery Pretexters Targeting Emergency Responders

Kevin Poulsen writes on Threat Level:

Someone is staging social engineerings attacks against emergency responders in a mysterious effort to wheedle sensitive information from them, according to a DHS information-sharing center:

"The Emergency Management and Response—Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EMR-ISAC) continues to receive information regarding instances within the Emergency Services Sector (ESS) of social engineering by telephone, electronic mail, chat rooms, bulletin boards, and face-to-face. Social engineering is a method of fraudulently gaining access privileges to an organization's sensitive information and assets by querying personnel over the communications media identified in the preceding sentence."

posted by Fergie @ 1/31/2008 04:55:00 PM