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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Phishing Techniques: Similarities, Differences and Trends

Introduction Spear-phishing is a technique by which a cyber-criminal falsely presents himself in an electronic communication as a CEO, director, manager or a subordinate (an insider) of a particular firm or department of government where his victim works to earn their trust, or he impersonates an entity which is either trusted by the targeted firm/government or the latter has relations or obligations towards it. To illustrate, a fake FBI subpoena...