Worm Your Way To Anti-Phishing Education
Just the other day, a developer friend was mentioning about one of the people he had hired for his development setup, who had preferred using the Internet for tutorials on a programming language.
Another indication of this is not just a fad, is the game that a team of scientists from the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory have developed called ‘Anti-Phishing Phil’, geared to inform users about the real dangers of phishing on the Internet. With a bunch of useful tips, it is worth playing.
In testing, the scientists at CUPS claim that, people who spent 15 minutes playing the Anti-Phishing Phil game were better able to identify fraudulent Web sites than people who spent the same amount of time reading anti-phishing tutorials or other online training materials.
As retaining attention becomes all the more difficult, Interactive Games win again as the best medium of education.
Download a paper on the topic (Anti-Phishing Phil: The Design and Evaluation of a Game That Teaches People Not to Fall for Phish)
According to Gartner, the average loss per phishing attack was $1,244 in 2006, up from $256 in the previous year, with estimates of the total financial losses attributable to phishing nearing $2.8 billion in 2006.
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