Online Scammers Go Spear-Phishing 144
Ant wrote to mention an examination at C|NET looking into the increasingly more effective techniques employed by phishers. From the article: "More recently, however, a hybrid form of phishing, dubbed "spear-phishing," has emerged and raised alarms among the digital world's watchdogs. Spear-phishing is a distilled and potentially more potent version of phishing. That's because those behind the schemes bait their hooks for specific victims instead of casting a broad, ill-defined net across cyberspace hoping to catch throngs of unknown victims."
Re:bullshit article (Score:5, Informative)
WTF? (Score:1, Informative)
Memory resident ones? If he reformatted then he reinstalled the OS and if he reinstalled he rebooted and if he rebooted.... you figure it out.
GP is correct, the story makes no sense.
Dupe? (Score:2, Informative)
Wow Mods, pay attention at all? (Score:3, Informative)
B) The man only left 358,000 Euros, not 5 million.
Re:the path! Re:This is weird. (Score:2, Informative)