http://advantage-marketingblog.com/2011/06/02/social-media-and-phishing/
Social Media’s Dark Side: Phishing and Scams
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Here’s what employees can do to avoid becoming the prey of phishing attacks:
1. Never click on a link or a bookmark which is associated with financial transactions or asks for any sensitive information; instead always manually type the URL in the address bar.
2. Don’t click on links which ask to download ActiveX or software on your system. These could be Trojan/malware which later becomes the control center to remotely control your system and others in the network.
3. Ensure that the site is authentic and using secure layer (https) before providing any sensitive information about yourself or your organization.
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Good advice for real people as opposed to “employees”.
I’d add “Switch to Open DNS”. It’s free and will prevent you from being “speared” by a “phisher”.
(On a technical note, it does that by preventing your browser from resolving known bad names into ip addresses. Thus, you’ll see the Open DNS “warning screen” with the option “Get me out of here”. It’s not perfect, but another compensating control.)
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