The Twitter Hack Shows a Major Cybersecurity Vulnerability: Employees

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The Twitter Hack Shows a Major Cybersecurity Vulnerability: Employees
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It’s hard for companies to protect against hackers targeting the workers who are already inside the systems.

—attackers keep finding ways to leverage human weakness to get around security measures.

There are more than a dozen types of social engineering attacks. The most common are fake “phishing” emails, whereby a message supposedly from a colleague or a manager asks for a password reset or help accessing a system. It seems like a quick favor for someone in a bind—but it can give a criminal access from the inside.

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