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Re: phishing irony


From: Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:24:37 -0500

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:45:09AM -0700, Ozzie Paez wrote:
One of the more useful and interesting approaches to awareness and training
that I have seen involved a company that would come into the organization
and create a fake web site that looked similar to the real one.  They would
then send out phishing messages to the 'target' population and track the
response.

We talked about doing something like this, but thought that people would
be upset at receiving something like that from us.

--
Pete Hickey                         "There's hamburger all
The University of Ottawa             over the highway
Ottawa, Ontario                      in Mystic Connecticuit.
Canada

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