WELCOME to Have you been phished?

Firstly this is a blog originated and designed with academic purposes. It serves the research purposes of a group of MBA students in Brussels for the subject of Key Internet Skills for Managers. The intent is to analyse and test how the content of a blog makes it visible on the blogosphere, the different techniques to drive traffic to blogs, the several publishing tools on the blogs and what distinct metrics are out there for measuring success, as well as how the web 2.o environment can help managers these days.

Please feel free to contribute only if you find the content (phishing) of any interest to yourself or anyone you know.

Secondly, we think that the blog, besides these academic purposes, might become an interesting repository of histories and lessons learned from those who have suffered from phishing consequences and feel that they have a role on preventing others to fall on the same mistake.

We have chosen this theme since it is known that as identities are stolen, several millions of Euros are deviated every year from personal accounts using phishing. If with this we could add some repository of antiphishing applications and or existing active phishing activities, we would be also helping preventing those crimes. You can see the first post by Jan as a good example how this camuflage technique can be very dangerous. HEADS UP and ENJOY

Paulo