Phishing Doesn't Really Work, Or Does It!
Indiana University conducted a survey, "Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of eBay Query Features" which may elevate your phears of being phished. While the Gartner Group estimated that three percent of recipients fall for these fraudulent messages, IU's study reveals a much higher number, 14 percent!
Gartner's estimates don't include unreported incidents as many people are embarrassed to admit it or don't know yet that they did. The IU study sent a faked message just as a phisher would. They elected an eBay fraud because of its popularity in the real world interface to cyberspace. A phishing message would normally send confidential information back to those wanting to commit theft. The IU message sent back a confirmation that the user had logged on. It could just as easily have been the confidential data. And these are not estimates, these are hard numbers.
Click here to read the PDF report"Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of eBay Query Features."
Gartner's estimates don't include unreported incidents as many people are embarrassed to admit it or don't know yet that they did. The IU study sent a faked message just as a phisher would. They elected an eBay fraud because of its popularity in the real world interface to cyberspace. A phishing message would normally send confidential information back to those wanting to commit theft. The IU message sent back a confirmation that the user had logged on. It could just as easily have been the confidential data. And these are not estimates, these are hard numbers.
Click here to read the PDF report"Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of eBay Query Features."
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