SMS Phishing at the SANSFire 2011 Handler Dinner
After a great "State of the Internet" Panel at SANSFire 2011 with the Internet Storm Center Handlers we began to reflect on Phishing, Spear Phishing, FAKE-AV etc and how this threat is never going away.
In another episode of "Handlers have lives too" we get Phishing and run into strangeness as well. While sitting at our Handler Dinner a Handler Phone buzzed with a text message. Not unusual, but when examined a good gut chuckle rumbled out of the handler (By the way, that handler was me).
The message then got passed around to the rest of the handlers. It was then that Dr Johannes Ullrich, our boss, said "Take a screenshot and post it."
On a serious note, after taking a look at this screen shot, ask yourself, who would fall victim to this? Notice the optout,reply,stop?
One of our sister sites has great information on "Securing the Human OS" and this plays right into that shameless plug [1]. Technology is so pervasive and only going to get more complex.
[1] http://www.securingthehuman.org
Richard Porter
--- ISC Handler @ SANSFire 2011
UPDATE: Image has been moved and hosted on ISC server.
Comments
netsec_consult
Jul 19th 2011
1 decade ago
http://www.pedantictheory.com/smaller.PNG
donald
Jul 19th 2011
1 decade ago
Visi
Jul 20th 2011
1 decade ago
Opie
Jul 20th 2011
1 decade ago
http://www.wireless.att.com/support_static_files/KB/svc/documents/1220912515172.Anti-spam%20FAQ%20080707%20Consumer.pdf
They should be held to the Do Not Call list.
dave
Jul 20th 2011
1 decade ago