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Cybersecurity Tips From a Master of Deception Turned Consultant
Frank Abagnale, the infamous impostor from Catch Me If You Can, says computer crooks have no compassion.
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Frank Abagnale was a notorious impostor. He wrote Catch Me If You Can about his exploits. After doing time he became a security consultant to the U.S. government. His book Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today’s Rip-off Artists is out this month.
Every breach, without exception, happens because somebody in that company did something they weren’t supposed to do or somebody failed to do something they were supposed to do—hackers don’t cause breaches, they take advantage of them. Equifax [Inc.] didn’t fix its tech, it didn’t update patches, so the hackers got millions of pieces of data.