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Report Shows Corporate America Vulnerable to Social Engineering

By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Defcon competition results indicate security technology companies are as susceptible to social engineering as nontechnology firms. Additionally, contestants discovered Internet Explorer 6 was still in use at 65 percent of the Fortune 500 companies targeted during the contest and nearly 90 percent of the targets willingly opened a URL given [...]

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