When Will End Users Stop Being Fooled By Online Scams?

snoopy · Jun 21, 2012

When Will End Users Stop Being Fooled By Online Scams?
Despite millions of dollars in security tools and hours of awareness training, many organizations still find themselves breached by phishing and old-school social engineering attacks. Is there a way to build a better, smarter user? By Tim Wilson
Dark Reading

On a chaotic workday, a top executive scans hastily through dozens of emails that have arrived in the past 10 minutes. There is one from an IT staffer whose name he doesn't know -- he doesn’t know most of the people in IT -- and it states that he needs to do a password reset or he will lose access to his applications. Without thinking, he clicks on the link provided in the email -- and malware is introduced to the entire corporate network.

Every day, employees in enterprises large and small are faced with attacks similar to this one. Fake emails -- or website messages, phone calls, or texts -- that appear to be legitimate elude anti-spam software and Web content filters to arrive at the employee's desk. These fraudulent messages -- collectively known as social-engineering attacks -- are quickly becoming the entre of choice for cybercriminals, both for the most sophisticated attacks and for everyday spam.

"The social-engineering attacks out there have become more sophisticated than ever," says Dan Waddell, senior director of IT security at eGlobal Technology and a member of the board at (ISC)2, the world's largest association of security professionals. "Cold calls, social-engineering emails, Facebook attacks -- they're getting better all the time, and it's not unusual to see a major breach starting with a targeted spear-phishing attack."
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