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Hack back: Spear phishing and how you can avoid it

May 21, 2013
'Spear phishing', a form of targeted hacking, is drawing a lot of attention. How can you protect yourself?

Spearphishing attacks attempted on government contractors

Jul 22, 2011
Reuters reports that hackers likely working for foreign governments are actively trying to break into US intelligence networks through spear...

Washington Post jobs site hacked

Jul 8, 2011
The paper says that an "unauthorized third party" hacked into its jobs database and absconded with 1.27 million user ids and email addresses. No...