Why Phishing Scams Keep Working
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The internet is riddled with scams and virus’ that continue to persists well past their “Sell By” date. There are many reasons for this; unpatched software, unpatched Operating Systems (OS’s) (would you belive that there are still Windows 95 machines out there, that have not been updated in years, that are compromised, but carry on working, doing what ever task they were set up for in the first place and being a nuisance for the rest of us).
We often hear about people being “hacked”; as with the “phone hacking” that caused the end of the News of the World, but the reality is that many (most) of these so called hacks are actually Social Engineering attacks; someone is duped to hand over information that helps the “hacker” (either verbally or in this case via a web page) or people’s normal behaviour is leveraged (in the case of the phone hacking they took advantage of the fact that most people do not change their voicemail’s default password).
Windows XP has now gone out of support, but this need not be a problem if you use a secure browser (Firefox. Chrome, et al (but not IE)) you keep an upto date virus scanner and …
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Why Phishing Scams Keep Working