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Oct 18th 2013, 02:50, by Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service
When a high-profile public figure living in Hong Kong hired the security company Trustwave to test if its experts could get his passwords, they turned to Facebook.
While the dangers of sharing too much data on Facebook are well-known, it is surprising how little data can give hackers a foothold. The man gave Trustwave's team no-holds barred permission to try and snatch his data, a so-called "Red Team" test.
Jonathan Werrett, managing consultant for Trustwave's SpiderLabs
"We found out through Facebook who his wife was," said Jonathan Werrett, a managing consultant for Trustwave's SpiderLabs in Hong Kong. "We found out through her likes—her public likes—that she ran a pilates studio. We could then send a phishing email to her based around the fact that she ran a pilates studio that was hiring."
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