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November 20, 2006

Test of the LibraryThing javascript

Posted by tplambeck at 10:50 PM

The deceptive Colonel Mustard

From this interesting paper by Tom Jagatic (et al) on fine-tuning phishing attacks to use information collected from social networks:

The figure [ a 72% success rate in a social-network-based phishing attack ] is, however, consistent with a study conducted among cadets of the West Point Military Academy. Among 400 cadets, 80% were deceived into following an embedded link regarding their grade report from a fictitious colonel.

Somehow, I'd really like to know the name chosen by the West Point researchers for their fictitious colonel. Maybe it's because I've always wanted to be a fictitious colonel myself?

colonelmustard

I don't know.

Posted by tplambeck at 07:02 PM

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