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Spear Phishing – A Serious Sport

Remember the good old days when phishing schemes were easy to spot, at least to the trained eye? Errors in spelling or grammar, poor graphics, and general misuse of language were instant tip-offs. Those days are gone – modern phishing attacks are very sophisticated and very difficult to spot. Phishing pages are virtually indistinguishable from [...]

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Conficker (April) Fools Day The Real Danger is not ConfickerConficker (April) Fools Day The Real Danger is not Conficker

Forgive me if I editorialize and slip from factual reporting into expressing my opinion. April 1 has come to most of the world and the sky has not fallen yet. In fact, most of the incidents reported so far are more related to Conficker hysteria than to the effects of the worm (or are April [...]

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CTV reports on Conficker

[media id=1 width=450 height=320] CTV reports on Conficker – included above is an interview with Barry Ball and David Redekop of Nerds On Site.

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