Article: Microsoft: UAC Can Be Hijacked by Social Engineering; Security analysts assail Vista's User Account Control; Microsoft has admitted that yes, UAC is liable to social engineering.

Article: Microsoft: UAC Can Be Hijacked by Social ...
eWeek;  February 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... latest salvo against User Account Control was heaved by Symantec ... yes, UAC is liable to social engineering. The idea behind User Account Control is to limit user privileges ... is indeed liable to social engineering of this type, barring ...

Article: Researcher Reveals 2-Step Vista UAC Hack; The technique uses ...
eWeek;  May 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Windows Vista's User Account Control, essentially by having ... Furthermore, the successive social engineering attempt will only be successful ... UAC being vulnerable to social engineering attacks goes, that ... indeed susceptible to social engineering attacks. But as ...

Article: Vista Takes Aim at Social Engineering
eWeek;  January 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... to help customers help themselves. From its UAC (User Account Control) feature, which limits the ability of viruses to gain ... most users encounter security issues because they fall for social engineering tactics, making mistakes such as opening malware e-mail ...

Article: Report: Security Drives Vista Adoption; News Analysis: Is the ...
eWeek;  May 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... And in spite of the bad rap Microsoft's UAC (User Account Control) has gotten from security researchers, another 14.28 ... Trusted," Microsoft confirmed that UAC is vulnerable to social engineering attacks, as it is not itself a hardened security boundary ...

Article: Social Engineering.(Feature)
Security Technology Executive;  April 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Social Engineering By Kevin Beaver, CISSP The big risk no one ... risk to sensitive information assets, it is social engineering. And there is no end in sight. What It Is Social engineering is nothing more than exploiting human beings ...

Article: Social engineering 101: staff inclined to be too ...
SC Magazine;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... professionals know how to define social engineering. Security professionals likely know ... fully armored against the threat of social engineering is only the beginning. Now it is ... testing tools. But, testing for social engineering--a cruder and more inexpensive ...

Article: A social engineering project in a computer security ...
Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... introductory computer security course, a "social engineering" team project was included as a ... This article briefly summarizes the social engineering literature, describes the project ... previous night. This caper is known as social engineering. Social engineering is ...