Hackers resorting to password theft
No other way in as users get better at security…. Hackers are increasingly resorting to social engineering techniques to obtain confidential passwords as businesses become better at locking down and patching their computer networks. And the bad news is that users are still very much the weak link when it comes to choosing and protecting their passwords, according to the results of a survey of IT security experts. It found that 15 per cent of those asked in an online questionnaire to give their network passwords in order to be entered into a prize draw happily clicked through to the page ready to divulge the information. Full Story