13-10-2013, 09:24 PM
These things are two-a-penny - they've been around for years and there are 100s if not 1000s of variations - the bottom line is NEVER EVER click on a link to take you to a "secure" site - always go there directly.
If in doubt about any email that might be a scam, you can usually check them, or the story behind them, at http://snopes.com - a very useful site...
There are ways even a direct URL can be compromised (e.g. primary DNS redirection or "hosts" file tampering), but its very rare and if your PC is protected with decent, up-to-date, anti-virus and patched regularly, you should be fine if you explicitly enter URLs.
No disrespect, but pretty much a waste of time - they'll see 100s or even 1000s of each of these from their own honeypots (its a standard thing to do) before they get yours, even if they bother reading it.
I don't run a personal honeypot, but I have them on our internal networks to detect anything roaming inside the firewalls.
The NSA use them too, except theirs are REALLY cunning - they bite back in extremely subtle ways including zero-day exploits. Do a Google on "Tailored Access Operations" if you want to see just how clever they can be...
TAO servers "harvest approximately two petabytes of data per hour" according to "internal sources"...
If in doubt about any email that might be a scam, you can usually check them, or the story behind them, at http://snopes.com - a very useful site...
There are ways even a direct URL can be compromised (e.g. primary DNS redirection or "hosts" file tampering), but its very rare and if your PC is protected with decent, up-to-date, anti-virus and patched regularly, you should be fine if you explicitly enter URLs.
(13-10-2013, 09:19 PM)Refugee Wrote: I don't even like forwarding them. If I do anything more than delete instantly I copy and paste the headers to the banks security department
No disrespect, but pretty much a waste of time - they'll see 100s or even 1000s of each of these from their own honeypots (its a standard thing to do) before they get yours, even if they bother reading it.
I don't run a personal honeypot, but I have them on our internal networks to detect anything roaming inside the firewalls.
The NSA use them too, except theirs are REALLY cunning - they bite back in extremely subtle ways including zero-day exploits. Do a Google on "Tailored Access Operations" if you want to see just how clever they can be...
TAO servers "harvest approximately two petabytes of data per hour" according to "internal sources"...
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