The FBI Checks In at Defcon

The FBI has taken a special interest in the ‘Social Engineering’ contest sponsored by Defcon. The participants will try to trick corporate employees into divulging not-so-sensitive data and the Feds want to insure that it stays non-sensitive.

Over the next three days participants will try their best to unearth data from an undisclosed list of about 30 U.S. companies. The contest will take place in a room in the Riviera hotel in Las Vegas furnished with a soundproof booth and a speaker, so an audience can hear the contestants call companies and try to weasel out what data they can get from unwitting employees.