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continuous phishing attacks via google docs? no, not quite. some collaborators and myself studied this a couple of years ago, it's a minuscule part of the phishing problem.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=61...

edited to add: here's the paper for you to read, i forgot i had a copy lying around.

http://monkey.org/~jose/tmp/PHISHING-FINAL-03-KN.pdf




Just because you saw a small amount from Google Docs doesn't mean that Oxford isn't seeing a large amount, or large enough to concern them. If you're a researcher, you should know that you can't extrapolate your dataset to everyone.


Thank you for posting ACTUAL RESEARCH!

Although I'll note that I didn't read the research since it's behind a $31 paywall.




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