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ABC reports about a worrying scam involving phone number porting. The attacker finds the phone number, name, and date of birth, and other easy-to-find information about a first victim and uses that information to port their number to a new service under control of the attacker. This enables them to access the victim's Facebook account, which is used in a social engineering attack against the victim's friends, who become new victims when they hand over their banking details, which are then used to transfer money and make purchases.
This attack obviously works better with the large amount of personal information people are putting on social networks. But how well would this kind of thing work against the average Soylentil?
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday January 21 2017, @12:15AM
An interesting point! Similar to my credit report. Why spend any effort at maintaining credit when it's trivially simple to just use somebody else's and ruin it? Use their dependence on an artificial and contrived cage that is the credit reporting agencies against them.
I was in my mid 20's when I decided to check just for the hell of it. At least a dozen other people were already using it. Tried to send in some letters, but one of the fucking assholes refused to believe I wasn't 30 years older and didn't live at such and such address. Spent a little time with it and then figured out it was one big game, an artificial market, for cleaning up credit. That and the credit agencies have extremely little to keep them honest and consumer oriented. I remember looking into submitting entries for a business once and I found that adding ONE black mark was easy, but adding a good mark? That had to batched, at least 1,000 transactions minimum, etc. Adding good marks to credit meets a much higher barrier to entry than adding bad marks. Gee, I wonder why? Credit isn't about representing who is good and who is bad, but to provide real and pragmatic duress upon people outside of due process and the court systems. Unlike the court systems, the credit agencies have a guilty before innocence approach.
In other words, there is nothing to be gained from social networking or credit reporting agencies and everything to lose.
All of that information in just a few places so that one can be abused easier and easier. Small attack footprint indeed when you refuse to participate. At least I embraced the corruption of my credit report! All that Bayesian poisoning and I don't even KNOW the people helping me :)
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