A Little Somthing For The Weekend?

It emerged that one of the BBC’s email lists has been exploited and all the recipients have been targeted with spam, in particular anti-impotence drugs. While the article starts out claiming hackers were at the heart of the matter, the reality was that the email was forwarded to the list, hence it was really the BBC who were spamming their own customers.

Several things can be learned from this incident…

1) Email lists are particularly dangerous when it comes to ‘The Wrong Dave‘ type of incidents.

2) People while the biggest asset can also be the weakest link.

3) People still read spam - and even forward it on!

Once more it should be awareness to the rescue. Inform people about the real threat of spam, not that it is annoying but that most of it is just a front to either get you to give your bank account details to the cyber-criminals or to get you to click on a link, which then infects your machine with a keylogger or other Trojan to… get your bank account details and your passwords and to generally make like miserable while it is sorted out.

Spam… come on now, you know what it looks like, just delete it.

September 22, 2008 | Filed Under Spam 

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