Frank Carver's Punch Barrel

The world is becoming a progressively stranger place. Now a company can buy a service to direct “phishing” attacks at its own employees. Such attacks send plausible appearing emails with instructions to click on a link and enter private details (or otherwise follow some dangerous series of steps).

Usually “phishing” is used by people wishing to steal money or identities, but in this case it is positioned as a technique to inform and train staff about the dangers of gullibility.

And to top it all, we get a new term “spear phishing” – the use of “phishing” techniques against specific targets.

Phish Your Colleagues With PhishMe — Security — InformationWeek