On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 14:13, Angus Scott-Fleming <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 Apr 2011 at 14:06, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> Per the article, it looks like more than email addresses - apparently >> Marriott and another hotel chain had their bonus points plans revealed. > > I saw a followup that said they weren't, FWIW.
Haven't see the followup. Hope it's true! >> Not good - it hits close to home for my wife, who sets up/administers a >> couple of scientific conferences a year, at various places around the >> country. >> >> I'm going to be teaching her how to read email headers in the next few >> days... > > Good luck with that. > > All this breach does IMHO is make phishing more likely. But that is not a > "sky is falling" scenario to me. User education about phishing is needed > anyway. Well, while she's not terribly computer-literate from our lofty position, she's pretty darn smart, so this bit of education should take - at the least, it'll allow me to refine my pedagogy. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
