Phishes, pseudophishes, and bad email

  • 16 October 2017
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October 16, 2017 By William Tsing
 
Everyone knows about phishing. We’ve all heard that the solution to phishing is to educate the user as, after all, it must be the user’s fault for stupidly clicking on the thing. But what about when perverse incentives make clicking the phish seem logical? What about the enterprise pseudophish—when design-by-committee language, lack of attribution, and over broad requests for personal information make something look like a phish?
 


 
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Making it look legal and being legal are two separate issues. Enticing the user is what is ones downfall................common sense and caution should apply.

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