In the general vein of "this won't happen to me", check out the
below article on using zombies to gather likely-looking email messages
to automatically craft seemingly targeted social engineering attacks:

http://www.lottaworld.com/2009/04/ghostnet-social-malware-spear-phishing-and-social-engineerin

  Some of those are pretty scary.

  Ponderables:

  Even if *your* systems are secure, if an external associate's system
is compromised, it may be almost as bad.

  How many people have suppliers/customers/etc on a whitelist
exempting them from spam/malware/etc filtering?

-- Ben

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