The result: You may be the target of phishing attempts that feature names you'd normally trust."
Details at the link.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Gone Phishing
Houston Chronicle: "An Irving, Texas-based firm that handles email marketing for a lot of big-name companies has been hacked, and there's a good chance you do business with someone on its client list.
The result: You may be the target of phishing attempts that feature names you'd normally trust."
The result: You may be the target of phishing attempts that feature names you'd normally trust."
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Just this week, I've received about ten emails purportedly from a teacher my children had several years ago. I opened one of them and all the email consisted of was a link, so I quickly deleted it and all the subsequent emails...but I'm sure they catch quite a few people this way.
Funny thing about phishers is that their own security is frequently not very good. Rather than logging in, I just back spaced out login and asked for their database( If I remember correctly it was just a file named passwords). I got thousands of emails and passwords. It would be nice if someone more talented than I could just mass mail a warning.
I haven't got anything suspicious yet. But Abebooks sent one telling their address database was one of those hacked and noted they would never ask for personal information.
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