SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Nov 11, 2014 11:38:06 #
Apropos of yesterday's topic on the Pizza Hut scam,
http://www.securingthehuman.org/newsletters/ouch/issues/OUCH-201411_en.pdf
In that thread, I mentioned that my e-mail had been sold to spammers but most of the messages I started getting were not spam, sensu stricto, but social engineering otherwise known as phishing. All contain links that end with dot-link, dot-me, or dot-mobi. I don't know that malware awaits at the ends of those links but I'm not going to look.
It's easy to get phished, even for a rank paranoid like myself. The bad guys got a photographer friend's address book and sent me a message that I thought linked to his new web page. Fortunately, it only went to an invitation to make my penis longer but, since that would probably hurt like hell, I passed.
http://www.securingthehuman.org/newsletters/ouch/issues/OUCH-201411_en.pdf
In that thread, I mentioned that my e-mail had been sold to spammers but most of the messages I started getting were not spam, sensu stricto, but social engineering otherwise known as phishing. All contain links that end with dot-link, dot-me, or dot-mobi. I don't know that malware awaits at the ends of those links but I'm not going to look.
It's easy to get phished, even for a rank paranoid like myself. The bad guys got a photographer friend's address book and sent me a message that I thought linked to his new web page. Fortunately, it only went to an invitation to make my penis longer but, since that would probably hurt like hell, I passed.
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