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Critical: MS Security Bulletin Advance Notication for February 2008

February 7, 2008 Methusela Cebrian Ferrer Leave a comment

Microsoft issued today an advance notification for twelve security bulletins that will be released on February 12, 2008.

Two of these twelve critical and important security bulletins affect Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac.


Further details can be found in this site:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx

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Phishing or Joking ?

February 7, 2008 Methusela Cebrian Ferrer Leave a comment
My manager forwarded me this email with a note …

“I think this is the funniest, undoubtedly most clumsy phisher I have ever seen”.

**Note: CommonWealth Bank and Westpac are two different banks in Australia.

This email is already one week old, but still it make sense. For somebody who understands phising emails, you will certainly agree and think these guys are joking.
But in contrary, there’s a wide population that does not understand anything of this and are vulnerable even to it’s very obvious trick.
The importance of continuous education and awareness is significant to Information Security and this was discussed in recent meeting of Anti-Spyware Coalition in Washing D.C.
Related Topic:
Education: What Works and What Doesn’t? [Audio]
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