The Oldest Tricks in the Book

If I asked you for your password to your email, Twitter, or Facebook account (hopefully they are not the same!) would you give them to me? What if I told you I was a system administrator? This is exactly what phishing attacks do, and what is more disturbing is that they are extremely successful. The reason they are so successful is not a technology flaw, it is a human one. Phishing attacks are successful because of successful social engineering. As outlined by an article on CNN many of these attacks seem legitimate at first glance. They use tinyurls and web pages that look like the real thing. Be careful, educate yourselves about phishing attacks, and for goodness sakes don't give your passwords to strangers.