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New breed of phishing dupes even the savviest of users into opening security holes

By Roger A. Grimes
March 02, 2010

In my previous column, I said that the No. 1 way to reduce IT security risks in your organization is to "simply" prevent end-users from installing stuff they shouldn't. This, of course, is much easier said than done.

Although infected innocent Web sites results in a large percentage of security breaches, fraudulent emails still abound. Unfortunately, long gone are the days when it was easy to identify malicious phishing email by their strange subject lines and horrible grammar.

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