Teach a Man to Phish and He'll Feed on Fools for a Lifetime
Saturday, March 29. 2008
Phishing -- trying to trick an e-mail recipient to click here, download that file go to this Web site -- is one of the oldest social engineering tricks in the book. It's been around so long mostly because it still seems to work -- and it's getting increasingly sophisticated. "This isn't malware for the masses anymore," said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee's Avert Labs.
Phishing is a tactic known to malicious hackers ever since the first one crawled out of a swamp and onto dry land. It's another variation on social engineering. The phisher's goal is to get people to open themselves up to technical vulnerabilities through nontechnical means. However, even though most e-mail E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial. Click Here. users have become more savvy about obvious scams, phishing is evolving.
Why do phishing attacks continue to work when e-mail users are constantly warned about identity theft? Because phishers go where the money is, just like bank robbers.
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