IBM Reports On Spear Phishers 169
FrenchyinOntario writes "IBM reports that while "regular" phishing is declining the black hats are now engaging in targeted spear phishing to glean as much information about a specific identity as they can for all the usual cybercrime reasons. It concerns authorities because the usual suspects - criminal and terrorist organizations - will want to take advantage of this, but the chilling part is how your identity will now be dependent on multiple institutions protecting your personal information, as opposed to eBay, PayPal, your bank, etc."
So the phishers have refined their tactics (Score:5, Funny)
Naw, it's an intelligent design!
Another stupid cutesy technical term? (Score:5, Funny)
Why phishing? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:black hats (Score:1, Funny)
The real question is... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So the phishers have refined their tactics (Score:4, Funny)
not the teaching of evolution, evolution itself.
Then MEGACORP won't have to waste profits on securing their massive database of customer eyecolor and bloodtype.
Re:Slashdotted, mirror here (Score:5, Funny)
Fishing (Score:4, Funny)
PLEASE TO BE NOT REPORTING US TO FBI!!!1 (Score:2, Funny)
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Fun with adverbs (Score:5, Funny)
Surreptitiously organized crime may be involved also, but they keep such a low profile that it's hard to tell.
Wrong! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A way around this... (Score:3, Funny)
french ID cards are a thousand times more secure than your dollar bills
What an idiotic statement...for three reasons:
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