Comments on: PDF spam http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/07/05/pdf-spam/ Commentary on the State of Information Security Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:22:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob Newby http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/07/05/pdf-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-19412 Rob Newby Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:34:42 +0000 http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/07/05/pdf-spam/#comment-19412 Funny thing, I got my first one of these just today. Weird method of delivery, huh? Good social engineering though - the spammer knows we will trust a PDF more than a jpg or gif (for example). Funny thing, I got my first one of these just today. Weird method of delivery, huh? Good social engineering though – the spammer knows we will trust a PDF more than a jpg or gif (for example).

]]> By: Chris Harrington http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/07/05/pdf-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-19411 Chris Harrington Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:31:14 +0000 http://infosecplace.com/blog/2007/07/05/pdf-spam/#comment-19411 I started getting about 1 or 2 a week in June. Now I am seeing 2 or 3 a day in my inbox. Apparently our spam appliance which shall remain nameless have not caught up to this threat. Maybe they have and our IT dept hasn't updated anything :) --Chris I started getting about 1 or 2 a week in June. Now I am seeing 2 or 3 a day in my inbox. Apparently our spam appliance which shall remain nameless have not caught up to this threat. Maybe they have and our IT dept hasn’t updated anything :)

–Chris

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