All my personal details for chocolate? Go on then

On social engineering, rootkits and Easter eggs

Infosec blog When I explain what I do to Spanish friends and neighbours in my faltering Castilian, people often ask me about malicious hackers. It’s very often hard to explain that the viruses they receive in their email are most likely random attacks. A PC is, after all, very personal so it’s easy to symphatise with people who take cyber-attacks personally themselves.

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