{"id":5656,"date":"2012-08-14T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T00:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2012-08-15T03:50:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T08:50:27","slug":"canadian-hacker-dupes-walmart-to-win-def-con-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5656","title":{"rendered":"Canadian hacker dupes Walmart to win Def Con prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In short, he got all sorts of information that could be used in a hacker attack. How? A bit of research and an ability to spin a few lies over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>As security systems get increasingly difficult to crack, hackers are turning toward a new source of information: people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/printarticle\/1239150\">Canadian hacker dupes Walmart to win Def Con prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hackers have always utilized people or social engineering.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.social-engineer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hadnagy,<\/a> who organizes the Def Con contest, said social engineering is a \u201chardly discussed, trained or defended against\u201d threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial engineering is the easiest and most widely used way to infiltrate companies,\u201d Hadnagy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short, he got all sorts of information that could be used in a hacker attack. How? A bit of research and an ability to spin a few lies over the phone. As security systems get increasingly difficult to crack, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5656\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[102,101,455],"class_list":["post-5656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-hacking","tag-security","tag-social-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5656\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}