spear phishing

[victor steinbok]

http://goo.gl/aikr1
> While e-mail addresses may not seem particularly vulnerable, experts say that if criminals can associate addresses with names and a business like a bank, they can devise highly customized attacks to trick people into disclosing more confidential information, a technique known as “spear phishing.”

The coinage is fairly obvious--sort of an analogue of target marketing
for phishing.
VS-)

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org