How phishers think, act and make a profit

Cisco Security Expert blogger Jamey Heary has a brief write-up of an excellent session at Black Hat late

last week that detailed how phishers think, act, and make a profit. Phishers don't protect their stolen data and so it's quite easy to figure out where they've stored their stash. Talk about hacking the hackers. Also, read about a new DNS cache poisoning trick in Jamey's blog.

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Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 28 years, 23 at Network World. He covers enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers and switches. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy and at jduffy@nww.com.