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Halock Security Labs Warns Companies to Beware of the Fruit Cake: Holiday Season is Prime Time for Social Engineers

Published in Lab Business Week, December 30th, 2007

Halock Security Labs, an information security organization, warns all companies with a physical location and Internet presence to make sure security policies and procedures are strictly enforced during the holidays, because criminal social engineers are out shopping for others' confidential data. Offices are particularly vulnerable in times of increased social activity, like the holidays, because employees are accustomed to seeing new faces, new vendors, receiving many email solicitations and disclosing personal financial information online while shopping.

Halock specializes in ethical hacking and social engineering -- at a client's request, to test a company's physical...

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