Have you heard about Smishing? Apparently, that's what you call it when you get a phish SMS on your cell phone. The scenario is the following: you get a suspicious SMS with a link in it, you follow the link which downloads a file, you are asked if you want to install the file, you agree and install it, and finally you get some trojan that hoses you. Totally a raw deal for the phone user. Although sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand, and I'm *not* going to call it smishing. Really, it sounds too dumb. So I'm just not gonna do it.
Ancillary to that, I'm less concerned about the phone-phish (see, not calling it smishing) that installs a trojan and more concerned about the phishing that asks you for information like your profile password, PIN, or other information. A few weeks ago, I probably would have discounted this as something serious to worry about, but then I got signed up for DateSite and now I fully understand the power of the nagging, insistent, and unstoppable SMS. Seriously, if my phone lights into "This Corrosion" or whatever at 2AM, I think I'd be ready to give away just about any information they want if that'll get the texting to stop.
In other, totally unrelated, news - AT&T Loses all our data.
Posted by Ed at August 30, 2006 02:15 PM | TrackBack