'Spear Phishing' - new, targeted phishing attacks?
The targeted attack used by hackers to compromise e-mail accounts of top US officials is reaching 'epidemic' proportions, say security experts.
The scam, known as spear phishing, was used in a bid to get passwords of Gmail accounts so they could be monitored.
Via a small number of customised messages it tries to trick people into visiting a web page that looks genuine so users type in login names.
Such attacks are often aimed at top officials or chief executives.
Interesting BBC article.
The BBC has got some good stuff going at the moment. In case you haven't heard about it, they are holding a Privacy Commission next week on Radio 4. I'll get some links. It really is worth EVERY member of WSFF having a look at this (if it can be accessed from outside the UK!).
Here we go for the pm blog: