Spear-Phishing – The New Spying #4
Part of the fall-out from WikiLeaks was the Anonymous.com attack on various organizations. One of the entities attacked was HBGary, a firm that provides cyber-security advisory services and products to government and industry. Bloomberg News reports on the contents of some of the 60,000 emails that were stolen from HBGary. These emails show that spear-phishing is a much larger problem than had been previously acknowledged. Bloomberg reports: Security experts say that the hackers’ techniques now surpass the ability of even the most sophisticated companies to catch them easily. The e-mails show that hackers routinely bypassed firewalls with so-called spear-fishing e-mails [...]