http://www.darkreading.com/insider-threat/167801100/security/vulnerabilities/229400287/social-engineering-capture-the-flag-contest-returns-to-defcon.html By Kelly Jackson Higgins Darkreading March 24, 2011 The first-ever social engineering contest at DefCon in Las Vegas last year went way too well: each contestant was able to successfully social-engineer some piece of information, or "flag," out of their targeted company. Chris Hadnagy, founder of social-engineer.org, which sponsors the Social Engineering Capture The Flag contest, says this year's competition will target more industries including manufacturing, technology, and education, and will include some high-profile companies with aggressive internal security awareness programs that have volunteered as targets. "We have two premiere targets [thus far] that have agreed to work with us and allow [contestants] to call them and social-engineer them," Hadnagy says. "They are willing to put their security awareness programs" up to the challenge publicly, he says. Hadnagy says he can't release the names of the companies, but that people will be "shocked" to learn in which sectors these companies reside. The goal is for the contest to include half volunteer, high-profile targets, and the other half, selected by the contest organizers. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Mar 24 2011 - 23:22:37 PDT
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