From: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>
Date sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:34:08 -0400
> Each week they increase the payment. Study observed that for payments as low
> as
> $0.01, 22% of the people who viewed the task ultimately ran the executable.
> Once
> increased to $1.00, this proportion increased to 43%. As the price increased,
> more and more users who understood the risks ultimately ran the code. They
> conclude that users are generally unopposed to running programs of unknown
> provenance, so long as their incentives exceed their inconvenience."
Roughly half the people will run potential malware for a dollar. Roughly half
the
people you offer a candy bar will give you their password.
We are definitely on the wrong side of the business ...
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rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org
A group of lions is called a pride; a group of crows is called a
murder; and a group of buzzwords is called a PowerPoint
presentation.
- https://twitter.com/MeetingBoy/status/212289330570469376
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
http://twitter.com/rslade
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