Tag Archive | "phishing"

Phishing used as ‘red herring’ by IT department

March 20, 2010 No comments yet

This week I was speaking to a potential client who said their IT department was resisting use of Facebook for marketing purposes (and blocking it via the firewall) because, horror of horrors, there was a phishing scam going around.
This snoozy bit of non-news is classic fear-mongering by the IT “wizards in the dungeon,” a real [...]

Longer, harder DMs satisfy no one

February 27, 2010 1 comment

This week Twitter suffered a maelstrom of spam, porn and phishing attacks. As Pete Cashmore, founder of @mashable, wrote in his CNN column: “The anatomy of these attacks is simple: You receive a message, seemingly from a friend on a social network. The message contains a link and some strong incentive [...]


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