jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Dec 15 06:47:16 CST 2011
I got an email this morning - XYZ wants to be your friend on facebook. I don't know xyz, but I often go look to see if maybe I do know them out in a circle somehow. I clicked on the link... It *looked* just like those things from Facebook... You guessed it, it was a social engineering attempt to get me to a page to do something bad to my computer. I run firefox in DropMyRights sandbox AND I have a widget to prevent running scripts in firefox which just saved my bacon. It just goes to show though. I *know* about this stuff, I am very careful and I still got suckered. Only my safeguards saved me. -- John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it