America's biggest vulnerability: ourselves Mark Decker, CIO, Jackson County Oregon Mark Decker, CIO, Jackson County Oregon Unsuspicious citizens are soft targets for social engineers, and America has a huge attack surface. To enemy hackers, ‘We the People’ represent millions of unprotected end-points. Foreign nations and non-state actors have successfully exploited our human vulnerability time and time again. In 2016, spear-phishing led to damaging email leaks just before the election, when the Russian hacking group “Fancy Bear” compromised email accounts belonging to t...