Last week details of more than 1.3 million people were stolen from the job site Monster.com.

The motivation behind the theft was:-

 The attackers wanted to get hold of personal information in an attempt to make e-mails supposedly sent by recruitment firms more plausible.

By getting people to open the fake e-mails and click on the attachments the thieves aimed to steal more saleable information or hijack an infected machine. 

Stay safe folks and be triple careful of attachments, even if they look like they are 100% legit.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6961880.stm

On a similar topic of getting people to compromise their own computers. An accident waiting to happen is Facebook.

A typical Facebook user gets tons of e-mail from the system. Every time something happens on their profile. So much so the user will get blind to it and just be clicking links without thinking.

Mark my words “Facebook” and “Accident waiting to happen”.

This is probably one of the reasons why Facebook is getting banned on corporate networks. That and the fact that employers actually want their staff to do some work from time to time.

Link: http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&ie=UTF-8&ncl=1119692576

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