Passwords for Chocolate
What works in social engineering? Chocolate for one thing. It doesn't take much to get people to give up information as one group of researchers in the UK recently found.
A survey by Infosecurity Europe (www.infosec.co.uk) of 576 office workers have found that women far more likely to give away their passwords to total strangers than their male counterparts, with 45% of women versus 10% of men prepared to give away their password, to strangers masquerading as market researches with the lure of a chocolate bar as an incentive for filling in the survey.
Before we males start to think we're the security conscious ones who don't fall for these silly lures, imagine they offered beer instead of chocolate. The percentages would be switched for sure.
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