Hackers competing in a social engineering contest at the Defcon conference here on Friday were able to trick random employees at 10 major U.S. tech, oil, and retail companies into giving them sensitive information over the phone that could be used in targeted computer attacks on the companies.

It's amazing how many security-related issues this would be true on ... for some reason, most folks just don't ever think about security, their own or that of anyone else, until it's too late ...