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U.S. Military, Agencies to Phish Their Workers
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:50:52 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somehow, this doesn't strike me as a good idea. :-) Via FCW.com. [snip] The military services and some agencies, including the Homeland Security Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, can launch diagnostic phishing attacks against their own workers. The government-sanctioned attacks will be designed to test how well federal workers adhere to organization's e-mail security policies. The agencies will launch the attacks will Core Security Technologies' CORE IMPACT penetration testing software. The IMPACT software will send keep track of how many employees click on the malicious links. With that information, agencies can gauge the effectiveness of their IT security education program. [snip] More: http://www.fcw.com/article97147-12-18-06-Web - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFiDSIq1pz9mNUZTMRAjMDAJ48kt6D6Og5CcnctDrzPr+WH+BfogCePDGi +bxRBI1zclMI/WIKUryakOQ= =WPr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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