To Catch A Phisherman Part Two
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Remember my piece not too long back about phishing and the websites that enable it? Well as luck would have it, the webmaster of funhumour.net commented on the article to alert me that he was now aware of exploit on his site. Good to hear, unfortunately I wish it had happened sooner.
Think about it. How many people could have been spare the phishing email had this guy not had his site hacked? Not only that, can we honestly point out who is ultimately responsible here? I myself can’t help but wonder if we need to blame both the hacker who does this in addition to the webmaster who allowed it in the first place. Then again, who is to say that the webmaster could have prevented it? I suppose that falls down on whether or not a patch for his site’s CMS was out there and whether or not he chose not to use it.
So what do you think? Where does this kind of responsibility ultimately end up? Could it simply be the end user who is not informed enough to spot these phishing scams? Hit the comments above and tell me what you think.
[tags]phishing,webmaster,hacked[/tags]
2 Comments
Jeff Schwarz
February 27th, 2007
at 7:21am
C’mon Matt, that is a really silly question. Goes right along with the false arguments that all good looking girls that are raped are asking for it, or anyone that leaves their home unlocked deserves to be robbed, etc. The solution is to find the little thieves and hang them in a public square, thus giving any would be phishers pause. Let’s get off the “blame the victim” mentality. I keep my computer relatively safe and clean, but because I do not have every program known to man, to prevent problems is not equal to a “Rob Me Please” sign.
John Sitek
February 27th, 2007
at 7:29pm
Agree with Jeff on this one for sure. We seem to have turned into a society where we blame the victim for everything. I know the insurance companies love this way of thinking. The victim did no crime the hacker did. Time to make the criminal responsible for his/her action and stop blaming the innocent.