Scorpio
08-15-2009, 10:56 AM
Phishing attacks are pretty cleverly designed, because they skip most virus checkpoints altogether and go for the true weak spot in human-computer interaction, the human. Lorrie Faith Cranor, a computer security researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, has been studying phishing attacks to identify new ways to fight them.
Some of the things her research team has learned:
http://consumerist.com/5122593/play-anti+phishing-phil-and-learn-how-to-spot-phishing-attacks
Some of the things her research team has learned:
http://consumerist.com/5122593/play-anti+phishing-phil-and-learn-how-to-spot-phishing-attacks