The results are out from the fifth annual Social-Engineer Capture the Flag (SECTF) contest. This year, social engineers worked in tag teams to trick companies into giving up flags, or key pieces of information that could be used to penetrate the target company. Lowes ranked the best and Home Depot ranked the worst. The full SECTF target company rankings from this year are posted at the top of this article.Impersonating internal employees was the most common pretext employed.”]

