Comments on: How at risk is your organisation from spear phishing? http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/01/13/spear-phishing/ By a community manager, for community managers Thu, 23 May 2013 19:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/01/13/spear-phishing/#comment-37945 Chris Thu, 02 May 2013 15:49:18 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=2467#comment-37945 Spear phishing is a terrible new threat to security. And most people don't think twice about responding to an email that is just slightly off. Think twice people!

]]> By: Martin http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/01/13/spear-phishing/#comment-35233 Martin Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:56:10 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=2467#comment-35233 Interesting piece on The Comment Group here at the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21371608

"They find the weakest link in the company," explains Jaime Blasco, from security specialists Alienvault.

"What they do is collect intelligence about the companies,"

"They try to find information from the internet, from other employees, from intranets, from Google… whatever."

]]> By: Ruth http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2013/01/13/spear-phishing/#comment-34843 Ruth Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:54:10 +0000 http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/?p=2467#comment-34843 I can really see how this could be a problem. I certainly trust emails I get at work much more than those I get to my personal email account, especially if the email is an internal newsletter or something.

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