IBM X-Force: ID theft ’a piece of cake’ with social network sites

Have you ever wondered how easy it could be to harvest information from social networking sites and use it for fraudulent purposes? Gunter Ollmann, director of security strategy for IBM Internet Security Systems, explains in his latest blog entry how, with a little imagination and a pinch of social engineering, identity theft can be a piece of cake (just ask Odysseus about his carpentry idea).

To see more on Gunter’s process of gathering this information and why he is calling this class of information harvesting - ’Shucking’, then please visit:
http://blogs.iss.net/archive/SocialNetworkHacking.html.

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