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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Clicking on phishing links can be good for security

When it comes to phishing sites there are two universal truths: people click on the links because they are lacking in IT security smarts, and the fake sites themselves get decommissioned very quickly indeed. So why not exploit the latter to educate the former? That’s the rather ingenious game plan being deployed by the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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