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I fell for the oldest social engineering trick in the book

Network World’s security expert says he fell for a direct message from a friend on Twitter. Brandon Butler, a writer who sits in the next cube over at the office, sent the message. He apologized profusely, and the tweet he got from him was the result. The bad guys started using my Twitter account to send out a variety of spam messages to friends, including the one I fell for, he says. It turns out he’s been writing about security for the past eight years like me.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2135126/i-fell-for-the-oldest-social-engineering-trick-in-the-book.html

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