Dead Thread: New phishing scheme...

[Daniel Hanson <dhanson () securityfocus com>]

We've moved into arguing simple semantics and what can be concluded from
those, so this thread is now dead.

As a background note, I tend to reject posts that identify primarily
social engineering tactics simply because there are so many that get
posted to the list, and I don't know what can be done outside of education
of the user. Paraphrasing something I read somewhere a few days ago, with
some of the viruses spreading these days, users really have to TRY and get
infected (open a image file, type the word into the zip program, run
program), and I don't know that anyone knows how you deal with that. This
topic will surface again in a few months, or when some new tactic is
working well.

Cheerio
D


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