[SGVLUG] Phishing revisited -- whaling and spear phishing...

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

A friend directed me to this page -- mentioned in a bit of an aside in
the article, it seems a couple of interesting terms have sprouted up
regarding "phishing":

   Whaling -- targeting the "big fish" [corporate execs, i.e., people
with tons o'money at their disposal, either personally or through their
company...]

   Spear Phishing: targeting a specific individual

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/technology/16whale.html?_r=1&nl=tech&e
mc=techa1&oref=slogin

This article is more about "whaling", though, with a notice about an
attack starting yesterday (?) which went undetected by at least 40% of
the spam/virus/trojan detectors

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