Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security

He pleaded guilty to unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.

By Lucian Constantin

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.

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 asĀ “the obsessive-compulsive type.”

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Source: http://www.csoonline.com/

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