Social Engineering – Sometimes It’s Too Easy
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**Executive summary:** A practitioner recounts a social-engineering exercise against an organization's help desk using a maternity-leave ruse and caller ID spoofing that resulted in multiple successful password resets, remote-control sessions, access to other employees' OWA accounts, and installation/configuration of Office 365—highlighting inadequate verification procedures and risky remote-support practices.
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