http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5519990/
Some of you are familiar with this and many of you may not be. All I can say is that the Interent is not a secure place. I've been doing IT and to a lesser extent network security for 9 years now and the last 6 months are by far the worst I have ever seen.
This article is about "Phishing". Phishing is a form of "social engineering", which means that the bad guys try to get your personal data from you by tricking you into passing out the data and is in many cases easier to do than a brute force "hacking" of your systems. I encourage everyone to read this article and remember to NOT reply to any of your bank stuff, especially credit cards, over e-mail unless you are absolutely certain it is legit. You are better off calling their customer service anyway...
I spend too much of my office time fighting petty crap like this that could be better focused on better pursuits
