State of siege.Spammers and "phishers" are infiltrating computer systems of more businesses than ever as their methods of luring Internet users get more sophisticated, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a survey for Websense Inc., the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. maker of Internet filtering software. The survey finds that 82 percent of IT decision-makers said employees at their companies have received phishing attacks via e-mail or instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or . But only 4 percent of the employees surveyed admitted they have actually "fallen for a phish." Phishing is the term for sending an e-mail that requests receivers to crick Crick , Francis Henry Compton 1916-2004. British biologist who with James D. Watson proposed a spiral model, the double helix, for the molecular structure of DNA. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for advances in the study of genetics. a hyperlink to another site that has been established to steal personal and financial data from curious recipients. "Phishers are becoming more sophisticated in their deception techniques to lure employees to spoofed Web sites, as most employees cannot determine which is a valid site and which is a fake," said Dan Hubbard, senior director of security and technology research for Websense. "By simply clicking on a phishing URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , the site can install spyware on the employee's computer which has the ability to capture data such as network passwords or Social Security numbers without their knowledge." In the company's recent survey, only a third of employees even heard of phishing. |
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