Myspace account attacking trick 2013

Two teenagers were arrested here on Long Island for hacking into a female acquaintance's MySpace account. Using an old social engineering ruse, they sent the victim an email stating that another "user" had a similar MySpace page to hers and that the victim's pictures and info were on it. In their email they conveniently sent her a "link" (bogus, of course) that she could clicked on to take her to the fake MySpace login page. At that point once she entered her login information the two teens were able to capture her password data and with it they logged into her account and posted inappropriate material on her real page. Social engineering attacks are hard to combat and all the security in the world will not help when you open the door and invite the hacker in!