This week yet another phishing scam made the headlines. Facebook users were sent an email encouraging them to click a link that would then download a password stealing program.
Most of us won’t fall for the poorly written email asking us for money to help out a Nigerian prince (and of course we will be richly rewarded for helping).
There have been con men around forever. Technology helps them reach a broader audience quicker. Everyone is susceptible to a con that hits there soft spot. The advertising industry and politicians have developed it into an art form.
When the disaster hit Haiti, the good people of the world wanted to find ways to help, and they did. But so did the con artists find ways to steal from people trying to help.
My Mom sends me emails that she has gotten for me to check if they are scams.
What if you got an email from your favorite restaurant/store offering a 30% discount coupon. Of course it then said “Click here” to get the coupon. Would you be tempted? If you clicked, and it was a targeted or day-zero attack your computer is probably infected even if you are running an Anti-Virus program. I can hear W.C. Fields saying “Never give a sucker an even break”. The point is that we are all suckers for something.
So what can we do about this? Savant Protection offers a layer of security that is easy to deploy and easy to manage that addresses these kinds of attacks and more.
Savant Protection offers a flexible, low impact, easy to deploy, easy to manage layer of security that blocks unauthorized software, stops zero day attacks, prevents the creation of advanced persistent threats, prevents key loggers from running, and eliminates the need for many system rebuilds. It does this by automatically creating and maintaining an implicit whitelist of all executables on each computer system. It is a simple and effective layer of security that will only allow a process to run if it is on the whitelist. This stops the targeted attack as described above from being successful. I.e., if an end user mistakenly tries to run that email attachment, it will fail to run since it isn’t on the white list.
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