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Slipshod Security, Human Frailty Made @N Ripe for Plucking

2014-01-30 22:23:27| TechNewsWorld

GoDaddy reportedly has admitted one of its employees handed out customer information to a scammer who carried out a scheme to obtain a prime Twitter account. Naoki Hiroshima, a developer at Echofon, this week detailed how the scammer was able to force him to hand over his prime Twitter account, @N. The scammer used social engineering to accomplish his goal.

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