Since people tend to be trusting, you and everyone around you are the weakest links in protecting against social engineering.

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Cybercriminals, as explored in my first TED talk, tend to target the allegedly weakest links in the network: people.

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The prosecution has saved to the end the thorny subject of forensic evidence, one of the weakest links in its case.

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But the weakest links will always be sites where materials are kept.

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Indeed, the Federal Republic of Germany has chronically been among the weakest links in the Western effort to deny potential adversaries militarily relevant high technology.

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"If I were a Republican candidate I would fill the airwaves with attack ads against Obamacare, just like they are doing, because this is one of the weakest links for this administration, " Westen said.

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Are these the weakest links in your organization?

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