Duping the easily duped

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The #3 under-reported tech story from InfoWorld includes an interesting detail regarding malware and users of Foxnews.com.

Who would think such folks could be easily tricked by social engineering exploits?

http://www.infoworld.com/t/tech-industry-analysis/top-underreported-tech-stories-2009-455?page=0,3

Hurry up and install that new CODEC so we can watch Glen Beck!

:lol

[Homeslice]

I was watching Fox yesterday at the gym, and during their coverage of the Nigerian lap burner they interviewed 3 different "experts" for their opinion.......And lo and behold, all 3 of them were conservatives who of course took the opportunity to bash Obama for one reason or another. One of them (a Republican congresswoman from FL) kept saying over and over how the terrorist should be handed over to the military so that they could use "the most intensive interrogation procedures this country can bring to bear".........Never mind the fact that the military is now limited to the same procedures found in the FBI manual.

Fox News caters to those who are either:
1) dumb blondes who are afraid of everything (think MADD on roids)
2) fake patriots (people who use words & ribbons to prove how patriotic they are)
3) people who are easily impressed by hot young broadcasters

[101lifts2]

Apparently the grape juice label duped someone I know...Just sayin..lol

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Apparently the grape juice label duped someone I know...Just sayin..lol

Didn't dupe me, douchenozzle. I just said it was a deceptive practice. Reading IS fundamental.

:gofurslf:

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BTW, 101...is your PC running slow?

http://poopnugget.com/files/crackup.gif

[101lifts2]

Why do you ask? I had a connectivity issue earlier because somehow the wireless adapter got disabled. Runs fine now. Speed is great too.

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Why do you ask?

Sharp as a bowling ball, as always.

[101lifts2]

Sharp as a bowling ball, as always.

I'm not playin ur little net games Tard.

[Particle Man]

fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight! fight!

Everyone out to the parking lot! Then it's juice boxes and peanut butter crackers for everyone when the Principal comes!

:lol:

[askmrjesus]

I'm not playin ur little net games Tard.

What do you have against table tennis?

JC

[askmrjesus]

Changed my signature to reflect my new standing with ya'll............

Could you change your avatar too, or do you still have 4th. of July decorations on your house?

JC

[Particle Man]

the one time I regret turning sigs off




ok, not really :lol:

[Homeslice]

So, which one am I?

An otherwise smart person who's wasting his time watching that?

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Oh, please; come on now...you only get the three choices you enumerated above, right? That was your assertion:


"Fox News caters to those who are either:
1) dumb blondes who are afraid of everything (think MADD on roids)
2) fake patriots (people who use words & ribbons to prove how patriotic they are)
3) people who are easily impressed by hot young broadcasters"

Don't try to weasel.........

....which one am I?

Verbiage. Reading is fundamental.

He said they cater to those people. He didn't say they're the only ones to watch it.

Clearly, they do pander to the exact demographics he mentioned.

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Yeah, isn't it annoying when a 3rd party shuts you down?

Sorry to make sense, and fuck up your point.

[Homeslice]

:lol:

And I didn't know that posts on an internet board had to be scientifically accurate and inclusive of all possible Fox viewers. I am sure some percentage of Fox viewers are normal, high-quality people......but that percentage is below average. :lol:

[Smittie61984]

To be fair to users, some of the traditional advice they get from IT or popular publications is no longer adequate. IT, says Grimes, tells people to go to only trusted sites. Unfortunately, by the beginning of 2009, the majority of infectious sites were mainstream. In a typical attack, users of FoxNews.com were told they needed to install a new codec to watch clips on the site. Once installed, the "codec" turned out to be a malicious piece of code undetected by most defenses, Grimes recounts

So they do what they were told to do (go to a main stream site) by the profesionals and then the profesionals say as of 2009 (what year is this?) that you have to be more careful, even with mainstream websites and they are somehow fooled?

You really dig deep to bash Fox News don't you? All the author did was state a website that many would not think would have malware that is very popular. They could have referenced Myspace, Facebook, Twitter but those are known my most to contain that shit. They probably could have used CNN, MSNBC, NYT, or even Current, but those sites do not recieve as many hits as Fox News does. Or the author has the same bias against Fox News you do and goes home and fondels his nuts to "Dave" every other night.

And no I do not watch Fox News. Fox News is too flashy for my taste (infact I watched 3 hours of MSNBC a couple of nights ago)

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First, I don't think I go out of my way to bash Fox News any more than they go out of their way to bash Obama. I guess I'm just "fair and balanced" that way...

Second, the humor I found in social engineering exploits against watchers of Fox News stems from the fact that Fox News clearly uses its own brand of "social engineering" to dupe its viewers.

To me (and apparently to the hackers) this indicates an audience easily lead, and ready to follow instruction, even if that instruction includes infecting their own PCs. In other words, it's really easy to (mis)lead sheep.

Max lulz.

[Smittie61984]

I saw one mention of "Fox News" and it was just a mention of a popular mainstream site. Seemed that users of Windows 7 are more at risk than someone of Fox News.

Fox News gets a shit ton of hits. So the malware people are going to target whatever has the most users because the odds of getting someone easily fooled are higher. Just because Fox News is chosen has little to do with the intelligence of its viewers. Let's say that Fox News gets 10,000,000 hits a day and 50% of their viewers are dumbasses. That's 5,000,000 potential targets. Let's say that CNN gets 5,000,000 hits a day and 70% of their people are dumbasses. That's 3.5million potential targets from CNN. Do the math.