Be Prepared: The Top 'Social Engineering' Scams Of 2017

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Forbes - Laura Shin - Imagine a hacker breaking into someone's accounts. If fancy computer skills are part of your mental scenario, rewind the tape in your mind. That's not how it's happening nowadays. Usually, the hacker is someone tricking the target themselves or a helpful customer service agent or an employee into opening the way for them -- a strategy called social engineering, used in more than two-thirds of all hackings nowadays. For instance, in a scam being perpetrated now, hackers are getting unwitting customer service agents at telcos to abet them in having people's phone numbers sent to the hackers' device, from which they reset passwords to the victim's accounts at email service providers and banks and more. Read more @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/ ... ccc0c67fec