A friend in the professional services industry landed himself in a classic spear phishing attack, and it took him half a day to realize his error, particularly because his bank contacted him to ask why he wanted to know his balance. Thank God for small favors, as the saying goes - it appears no real damage occurred, sofar.

Although some of the technology used is pretty sophisticated, it is most amazing how simple and effective most of these schemes are. Equally amazing is how primitive security technology is, everything from firewalls, to anti-virus, to IDSs, and so on provide only relative assurance. One good thing about GuardedID® is that it simply disables a certain class of activity, in this case the copying of keystrokes. So it is a very black and white sort of protection compared to most security solutions.