A number of attacks on high profile individuals that have made the news recently are of a social nature more so than a vulnerability in a certain software’s code. Mat Honan perhaps being one of the most well known cases.
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed.
Two factor authentication is being used by more as different services begin to support it, but it won’t make you entirely hack-proof. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare was the victim of an attack where by somebody socially engineered AT&T to redirect Matthew’s voicemail to a number the attacker owned at which point two factor authentication in the way he had it setup became useless.
more here..............http://www.jackpearce.com/post/93996002797/social-attack-against-sim-cards
In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed.
Two factor authentication is being used by more as different services begin to support it, but it won’t make you entirely hack-proof. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare was the victim of an attack where by somebody socially engineered AT&T to redirect Matthew’s voicemail to a number the attacker owned at which point two factor authentication in the way he had it setup became useless.
more here..............http://www.jackpearce.com/post/93996002797/social-attack-against-sim-cards