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His computer was infected after clicking a (bogus) LinkedIn invitation of a non-existent employee of the European patent office. Just goes to show how effectiv
by eliteraspberrie 13y ago
His computer was infected after clicking a (bogus) LinkedIn invitation of a non-existent employee of the European patent office.
Just goes to show how effective phishing attacks are. If a professor of cryptography does not check SSL certificates, far less people do so than we think.
- zokier 13y agoSocial engineering has very little to do with cryptography; being expert on one does not give effective protection against the other (or vice versa).