Spear-Phishing Experiment Evades Big-Name Email Products [Voices]

By Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor, DarkReading

The researcher who conducted a successful spear-phishing experiment with a phony LinkedIn invitation from “Bill Gates” is about to reveal the email products and services that failed to filter the spoofed message — and that list includes Microsoft (MSFT) Outlook 2007, Microsoft Exchange, Outlook Express, and Cisco (CSCO) IronPort.

Joshua Perrymon, CEO of PacketFocus, had previously revealed that the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Palm Pre smartphones had all fallen victim to the spear-phishing exercise.

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