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Human IT managers thought they were being nice to the boss, but were assisting a threat actor<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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PWNED<\/span> Welcome once again to PWNED, the column where we help you prepare for security success by studying others\u2019 embarrassing failures. Today\u2019s terrible tale involves individuals trying to do right by a company executive by letting their guard down, never a smart move. <\/p>\n

Have a story about someone leaving a gaping hole in their network? Share it with us at pwned@sitpub.com<\/a>. Anonymity is available upon request.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our sad story comes from Brandon Dixon, who currently serves as CTO and co-founder of AI security firm Ent<\/a>. In a prior life, however, Dixon was a penetration tester for hire and he saw some things that made all my remaining hairs stand on end just hearing about them.<\/p>\n

During one pentesting assignment, Dixon tried to find out how easy it would be to steal someone\u2019s account using social engineering. The answer: barely an inconvenience. <\/p>\n

Dixon telephoned IT security and pretended that he was the head of security who had lost his password. When they asked him challenge questions, he said he had forgotten the answers to those also. <\/p>\n

Then he gave them the password he wanted to use over the phone and they did a reset for him. After that, he was able to get into the network and do whatever he wanted there. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s so much that\u2019s obviously wrong here that it\u2019s hard to know where to begin with our lesson-taking. The IT support agents should not have taken Dixon\u2019s word that he was the security manager, especially after he failed challenge questions, and should have denied his request to reset the password. They were probably thinking \u201cthis guy is an executive and we don\u2019t want to piss him off\u201d rather than \u201cwe have procedures that everyone must follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other problem here is that the IT department entered Dixon\u2019s suggested password for him over the phone. First of all, the IT department should have sent a password reset to the real employee\u2019s email or phone number. Second of all, it\u2019s piss-poor security for anyone to know a user\u2019s password other than the user themselves. And I say this as someone who used to work for a company where, if you had a problem, the IT support people would ask for your password via chat. <\/p>\n

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Dixon also shared another story about social engineering from a time when he consulted for a pharmaceutical company. Members of the competition would call sales and marketing reps, pretend they were coworkers, and then extract information about upcoming drugs. This would allow competitors to know what was coming and how to respond to it.<\/p>\n

To help solve the problem, Dixon instituted a system where real employees had to give a secret password at the beginning of a conversation. <\/p>\n

\u201cI built a system called ‘Chal-Resp,’ short for ‘challenge-response,’ that generated work pairings so a user could validate they were speaking with an actual employee,\u201d he told The Register<\/span>. \u201cThe caller would need to say the word and the end-user would need to respond with the proper challenge; only employees had access.\u201d<\/p>\n

What both of Dixon\u2019s stories have in common is the proof that humans are eager to please and be helpful. But suspicion is the whole root of infosec, so it behooves us all to be a little less helpful to strangers in the workplace. \u00ae<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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