Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security<article>
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The activity of Romanian hacker Guccifer, who has admitted to compromising almost 100 email and social media accounts belonging to U.S. government officials, politicians, and other high-profile individuals, is the latest proof that humans are the weakest link in computer security.</p><p>
Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, is not a hacker in the technical sense of the word. He’s a social engineer: a clever and persistent individual with a lot of patience who a Romanian prosecutor once described as “the obsessive-compulsive type.” By his own admission, Lazar has no programming skills. He didn’t find vulnerabilities or write exploits. Instead, he’s good at investigating, finding information online and making connections.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3075487/security/celebrity-hacker-guccifers-confession-gives-us-all-a-lesson-in-security.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security
