Phishing Attacks Becoming More Sophisticated
Over at NextGov.com, Jill Aitoro writes that hostile code attached to e-mail messages is one of the most significant cybersecurity problems federal agencies face today, according to an industry analyst and former FBI investigator. “It’s getting scarier and scarier and scarier,” said Michael Gibbons, principal of security and privacy services at Deloitte and former chief of computer crime investigations.
Long recognized as a serious problem, phishing attacks send messages masquerading as notices from legitimate organizations or persons to computer users, with the expectation that they will click on a link and enter personal information, such as bank account numbers or passwords. Spear phishing attacks, however, target specific individuals, frequently using their name, and are therefore harder to spot and avoid. Read the full story here.
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