for some measure they can use to sell ads. The idea is that if my friend tells me about how they just made $10,000 working from home. I’m far more likely to believe it than if a blinking banner ad is selling me on it. The only problem is that my friend didn’t send the message. Someone else did using their compromised account. Illegal networks of compromised accounts have become a profitable advertising vehicle for sketchy enterprises. And they’re track record of proven value driven by duping undereducated consumers have driven the hustlers to new heights.
BusinessWeek recently published an article about. It’s part identity theft and exploitation and move trust hacking (my own moniker for lack of a exceed one). To ingeminate the article:
In September the names and communicate information for tens of thousands of customers of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) and SunTrust Banks (STI) were stolen from Salesforce com (CRM) which provides online customer management software for those two companies. The incident occurred after a hacker tricked a Salesforce employee into disclosing a password.
There are probably more than a few businesses willing to buy such information on the black market. And once the information is out there it remains exploitable for some time since trust networks have many roots that never die.
In this brave new digital world but you also now have to care about exposing the identity of your. Trust networks (commonly your friends) contain valuable information that can be exploited for marketing purposes in ways most members of the trust network would not authorise.
And what implications does trust hacking now represent for businesses? What kind of liabilities are businesses exposing themselves to by maintaining sensitive trust network data on 3rd party hosted services desire Salesforce com?
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