Too many "phish" in the corporate pool
by Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 7/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Heard of phishing? If so, you're ahead of two-thirds of your colleagues, according to a poll conducted by Rochester, N.Y.-based Harris Interactive and commissioned by Websense, a provider of solutions for managing employee Internet use. The survey, which included responses from more than 300 IT decision makers and 500 employees of organizations with at least 100 employees, revealed only 33 percent of workers realize crooks are replicating the Web sites of legitimate businesses and luring people to those fake sites with e-mails asking the person to update personal information such as a credit card number.
Anyone taking the bait is likely to become an identity theft victim. Some phishers also place hidden software on their victims' computers to track their keystrokes, opening up the possibility for stealing passwords that allow access to corporate networks. The lesson: those e-mails warning of trouble on your eBay account probably are just Phish bait.
