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Phishing

I first approached this topic in early 2003 (Identiy Theft at the Speed of The Internet) and in the last update of this work suggested it would be “the topic” of 2003. Well, here we are marching our way through 2004 and yes the US Government agrees that Identity Theft is the fastest growing issue.

As I write this update, I’m getting several Phishing emails a day. They claim to be someone I may or may not actually be dong commerce with and the email claims it needs updated information. The latest wrinkle has been that Tcat.net is updating its mail server and they need X data. Amusing since I am the sole user of Tcat.net or TcatU.net ;-) and the true and only administrator of those domains.

Well folks, SY0-101 does not address phishing. It is too new an issue. That doesn’t ‘let you off the hook’ of educating your users. And phishing has become very tricky, attempting to show a ‘padlock’ indicating SSL is in use, as reported in the footnote ⁸⁵.

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