In the Security of your own Home...
If you were walking home from the subway, and someone in an Ace-hardware uniform stopped you on the street, telling you to go into the Ace Hardware store around the corner and order a replacement lock and have it installed that night, you would laugh and go straight home.
If on the other hand you were sitting in the seeming security of your own home, or office, in front of your own computer the jury is still out what you would do, when you get that credible looking message which urges you to change your password, for your bank account, for there has been a security breach. Somehow, an alarmingly high percentage of people answer various phishing and spear phishing emails, people who normally could not be so deceived, but somehow the context is different...
Maybe it helps to think of it in graphic terms like this, for suddenly you would have to realize how unlikely it is that these messages are authentic, regardless of how good they look. It's only a bit of computer graphics...
A recent example appears on my parallel blog at our sister company, Bit by Bit, here: A Spear Phishing cum Key Logging Story
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If on the other hand you were sitting in the seeming security of your own home, or office, in front of your own computer the jury is still out what you would do, when you get that credible looking message which urges you to change your password, for your bank account, for there has been a security breach. Somehow, an alarmingly high percentage of people answer various phishing and spear phishing emails, people who normally could not be so deceived, but somehow the context is different...
Maybe it helps to think of it in graphic terms like this, for suddenly you would have to realize how unlikely it is that these messages are authentic, regardless of how good they look. It's only a bit of computer graphics...
A recent example appears on my parallel blog at our sister company, Bit by Bit, here: A Spear Phishing cum Key Logging Story
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