The first-ever social engineering contest at DefCon in Las Vegas last year went way too well: each contestant was able to successfully social-engineer some piece of information, or "flag," out of their targeted company.
Chris Hadnagy, founder of social-engineer.org, which sponsors the Social Engineering Capture The Flag contest, says this year's competition will target more industries including manufacturing, technology, and education, and will include some high-profile companies with aggressive internal security awareness programs that have volunteered as targets.

"We have two premiere targets [thus far] that have agreed to work with us and allow [contestants] to call them and social-engineer them," Hadnagy says. "They are willing to put their security awareness programs" up to the challenge publicly, he says.

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