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Countermeasures against targeted attacks in the enterprise
Markus Jakobsson, SearchSecurity.com Threat Monitor, June 12, 2008
Excerpts from the article:
...part of SearchSecurity.com's Intrusion Defense Security School lesson, Anatomy of an attack featuring Markus Jakobsson...
Now we are entering a new age when not only is malware prevalent and dangerous, but human actions also matter more than any myriad of security technologies an organization may have in place. This confluence has spawned a flood of targeted attacks that look to exploit human mistakes. At the core of many of these attacks, we find social engineering. Social engineering attacks prey on human vulnerabilities, and are fueled by the availability of data about potential victims.
This tip will explore some of the most prevalent and dangerous varieties of targeted attacks victimizing enterprise users today, and how security organizations can defend against them...
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