20 Jul 2006
Card Locks Thwarted by Shopping Club Card

Ouch! I hate eating Post-It notes....

A recent column ('Social Engineering, the Shoppers' Way') on darkreading.com shows how easy it is for a pen test team to walk into a supposedly secure facility using a shoppers club card because the man trap feature was enabled. Man-traps allow people to enter an outer door but not an inner door similar to ATM kiosks. Once inside, of course, they had the run of the place. Lessons: after writing down your password, eat your sticky notes rather than leave them on the monitor.

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