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Bill Gates

E-mail Spoof Defeats Technology…Are Your People Prepared?

2009-10-30
By: Awareity
On: October 30, 2009
In: *Connecting the Dots Blog*, Information Security, Risk Management

According to news reports, a spear-phishing experiment conducted over the past few days has revealed some disturbing new risks for organizations using enterprise e-mail products and services:  Most major enterprise e-mail products and services were unable to detect a fake LinkedIn invitation that looked like it was from Bill Gates inviting people to join his professional network.  Once the ‘victim’ clicked on the ‘invite’ link, they were sent to the phishing site where information about the ‘victim’ was captured. The article in Dark Reading detailed comments from CEO of PacketFocus including: “I tested the spoofed e-mail on six different enterprise networks using the latest e-mailRead More →

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