Just a reminder about the basics

[ZWarrior]

Interesting article I found with real world examples about what to remember...

http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=467

been there, done that.

[yoda_mon]

Keys to the Kingdom was the best.  It is frightning how quickly some people will give out user accounts and passwds.

[JollyRoger]

I have read these types of stories before...

Yes it is scary how quick people are to trust. It is human nature to want to trust, but unfortunatly that is were people take the most advantage of us. It is just the little things too. I am not saying that giving someone your name a telephone number is a big security risk. But by a first and last name and a phone number you can get the ball rolling into so much more. do you realize how many bank pin numbers a based from phone numbers. not to mention Soc. Security numbers and birthdays. it is to scary.

and people will give this information away easily.
take the last time you filled out an application of employment.
you did it in the confidance that the  employer would keep it safe, right. Come to find out it was put into a drawer of a filing cabinate that had a lock that nobody at the company locks.
Lovely...

isn't it.

and the list goes on...

[JollyRoger]

The biggest reason I am so intreasted in Information Systems Security...Why I want my Degree in it.

[ZWarrior]

So you can steal more information?

[JollyRoger]

Yeah That it....You Figured me out.

In fact it is the opposite