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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 127 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (29 children)

A lot of hacking is actually social engineering. It's not hard to get a tech-illiterate person to give up their password, and that's the softest target for an attack.

[–] UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Or even jaded tech savvy people. I work in IT and there have been a number of times that I have witnessed or heard about people who know better causing an incident because they're burnt out or irate.

[–] hellishharlot@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Happy employees are less likely to be socially engineered? Wow shocker

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