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Re: New whitepaper "The Phishing Guide"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleksandar Milivojevic)
Thu Sep 23 15:38:51 2004

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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:57:03 -0500
From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>
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Gunter Ollmann (NGS) wrote:

[snip]

> While the Phishers
> develop evermore sophisticated attack vectors, businesses flounder to
> protect their customers' personal data and look to external experts for
> improving email security. Customers too have become wary of "official"
> email, and organisations struggle to install confidence in their
> communications.

Sometimes it's unbelivable how long it takes organizations to discover 
that email can be signed.  Especially nowdays when all major mail 
readers have support for at least S/MIME (and the really good ones have 
support for at least PGP ;-) ).

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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@pbl.ca>    Pollard Banknote Limited
Systems Administrator                           1499 Buffalo Place
Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276                     Winnipeg, MB  R3T 1L7

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