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Social engineering: How oversharing information can lead to disaster online

Information is the key to any malicious campaign, and the more personal it is, the more value it holds. When a target user reads an email material to craft a better phishish material, this information is a tipping point. The more people who trust e-mail is the more likely the target will become the target of a phishing attack, says CTO Trevor Hawthorn. Hawthorn: Smart people are tougher to crack as they use social networking and social networking to crack down on phishing attacks.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2134092/social-engineering–how-oversharing-information-can-lead-to-disaster-online.html

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