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Most major news events provide an open door for email exploits. You just need a little something to appeal to the voyeur in all of us, especially live video footage (remember the BIn Laden video a few months ago?). Last week, the horrible events in Oslo turned into a phishing campaign when a message (spreading on Facebook, of course) claimed it linked toRead more

You’ve been told time and again to be careful about who you give your email address to, and to NOT give any personal information to businesses you don’t know or trust (ref: Spear Phishing with Unsecure Databases).  But what about the BIG guys you do trust? This Monday morning I awoke to dark skies, rainRead more

Dale Carnegie said that one of the best ways to get people to like you is to compliment them. Spammers seem to have read the book because not a week goes by that I don’t see a spear phishing spam that tells me how amazing I am and how lucky I am to be partRead more

John P Mello Jr recently reported at AllSpammedUp that 50% of all information harvested in a phishing campaign is harvested within an hour of the emails hitting the mailbox. Basically, you better be sure that you are blocking those messages for the first hour! Most anti-spam and anti-phishing software filters block phishing attempts effectively. TheRead more

Are you familiar with the terms smishing and vishing? They’ve been around for a few years now, but they’re not as common as email phishing and haven’t been given as much attention. Both smishing and vishing are variations on the phish theme: smishing targets SMS text messages, while vishing or voice phishing uses automated phoneRead more