How did I know you would be the right person to target to pull this off with?  That’s as easy as playing connect the dots.  Your profile on LinkedIn shows you as a ‘Senior VP of Product Development’ what this means to me is access: you gots it, I wants it.  Coupled with a search through public records for your marriage records (none to be found) and your address (nice, biggish house in a nice, dark little corner of the upper middle class American Dream, white picket fence and all).  Mix in your public Facebook profile which shows a penchant for parties, booze and beaches (nice abs, by the way!) and I have my target.

     So here I am, waiting.  As soon as you get home from being stood up for dinner after work, you will do what countless other Americans do: use your work-issued laptop to log into your wireless network (a woefully unsecured and opened wireless network in your case), and check your email/facebook/sports scores/whatever your hobbies and interests are.  My hobbies and interests include planting keyloggers on your laptop so I can get more of your passwords (thanks!), accessing your machine remotely and stealing important documents/research/marketing materials (thanks again for keeping your password simple and dictionary friendly) and finally, starting this all off by pretending to be a five-one blonde on Facebook who wanted to meet up with a certain Senior VP of Product Development, because I knew roughly where you’d be so I could set up and when you’d be there (my partner got most of your passwords from the smartphone you kept complaining at under your breath while at the restaurant I was supposed to be meeting you at, turn off Bluetooth every once in awhile).

     The moral of our story this evening is kinda simple:  security, like home, is where the heart is, or where you are.  Not where your work is.  You, like all of us, are potentially a target.  You are also the product of generations of people who have defeated scam after scam after attack after attack with a little forthought, and a lot of common sense.  Act like it.