Η Emily Williams he is not a real person. It was created by two hackers as a social network profile. THE photo it was real and belonged to a woman who had given her consent to the two hackers who wanted to use her.
The hackers used two fake profiles, one on Facebook and one on LinkedIn to send greeting cards to civil servants of the department where she was supposed to work Emily Williams.
As Violet Blue says ZDNet the two researchers used decrypted greeting cards to acquire administrator rights, get passwords, install apps, and steal files from their victims' computers.
Miss Emily Williams, was the showcase of security researchers Aamir Lakhani and Joseph Muniz. In this way, they even persuaded a security team member to click on a javascript that was hidden on a birthday card.
Ο Lakhani presented the attack at the RSA Europe 2013 conference on Wednesday, 30 October.
Mr Lakhani presented the findings of the survey to RSA Europe 2013 in a speech that had "Social Media Deception." The results were related to Project "Emily Williams", a test of penetration in a US government agency, which was conducted in late 2012.
Lakhani declined to identify the US government agency that was breached in Miss Williams' name. But as he told the audience at the RSA conference, his team's attack took place at a highly secure service that specializes in cyberattacks and privacy protection. attacks
Download the PDF: RSA presentation slides for Social Media Deception
Mr Lakhani explained that his team had tried the same attack with fake men 's profiles, but were unsuccessful.
