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Researchers Create Social Engineering IRC Bot
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology developed an IRC bot that acts as a 'man in the middle' between two unsuspecting users, modifies URLs passed between them, and also is capable of steering the conversation. Not only does this work surprisingly well on IRC — they found a 76.1% click rate for potentially malicious URLs — but four out of 10 people on Facebook Chat also clicked on links after the bot introduced complete strangers to each other. This would have worked even better if the bot were to clone existing friends' profiles and submit friend requests from those, say researchers."
7 out of 10 IRC users [...] are utter idiots.
Somehow I don't think that's true. I think it's more likely that 7/10 IRC "users" are other bots.
But the new Microsoft ad campaign says Internet Explorer blocks all those bad places. Who am I supposed to believe?
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Offtopic: You mean this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDuOGx2_J8U
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