Snoopy Fujitsu tech KNOWS you'll click that link – before YOU do

  • 23 January 2015
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Creepware: You're a click-happy dope, aren't 'cha?

 
23 Jan 2015 at 12:35, Darren Pauli
 
The next time you hover over a suspicious link a little too long, or download from a questionable site, you might get a nudge from Fujitsu.
The Japanese tech giant has, from the back of a 2000-head study, developed a tool capable of determining if a user was likely to be scammed and delivering a custom warning.
Together with a security questionnaire, software could monitor the keyboard and mouse movements of employees, watch de-anonymised email traffic and keep an eye on web access to pick out those who may consider opening bad links, as distinct from those who click.
http://regmedia.co.uk/2015/01/23/1123323.jpgThe experiment
 
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by John Zorabedian on January 23, 2015
 
 


 
Ask around and IT professionals will tell you that one of their top security concerns can be summed up with the acronym PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard.
It's a tongue-in-cheek way of saying security breakdowns are caused by users.
Many people are susceptible to social engineering attacks and phishing emails, have bad habits like using weak passwords, and leave themselves open to cyberattacks by not taking steps to secure their software and devices.
Many possible solutions have been looked at - training programs and tools that use false phishing emails, minimum password lengths, millions spent on public awareness campaigns - but the user problem persists.
 
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