Contest was an attempt to raise awareness about human manipulation in order to commit a crime. Contestants made 140 phone calls to employees at target companies seeking information. 90 percent of targeted employees opened up a URL sent to them by contestants. Almost all gave the callers the information they were looking for; only five employees did not. The numbers reveal social engineering is a huge problem for all organizations, organizer Chris Hadnagy says. An important chapter of Wikileaks’ saga that got so much attention in 2010 involves social engineering, he says.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126444/social-engineering-attacks–highlights-from-2010.html