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HMRC scam breaches Parliament firewall

...email on Monday tried to direct a number of MPs to a fake site, which attempted to harvest personal information, Labour MP Andrew Miller told... Read more

17 November, 2011
McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

McAfee: Why Duqu is a big deal

Dave Marcus, head of security research at McAfee, delves into the workings of Duqu, an information-stealing piece of malware that is shaping up to be as big a threat as Stuxnet Read more

26 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

FBI unplugs candidate copycat site

Lookalike online contribution page took donations from supporters of US presidential candidate John McCain Read more

21 February, 2000 by ZDNet

Can you tell which one's the fake site

Be aware, be very aware... Read more

29 January, 2002 by Julian Goldsmith

Barclays is latest target of spoofed website fraud

Dodgy email tries to get people to enter account info at fake site Barclays Bank is the latest company to have its customers targeted... Read more

15 September, 2003 by Andy McCue

Ginseng Jim twist to spoof PayPal ID theft scam

...Russian hackers hijacked a Wisconsin factory owner's details to set up fake site? A ginseng factory owner in Wisconsin has been revealed as the... Read more

10 July, 2003 by Andy McCue

PayPal alert! Beware the 'PaypaI' scam

...last night created an exact replica of PayPal.com and used the fake site to attempt to pilfer user names and passwords from customers of... Read more

24 July, 2000 by Bob Sullivan

UK domain gets DNS Security Protocol protection

...cache poisoning to redirect traffic from a genuine site to their own fake site, although many organisations have deployed patches to stop such attacks. These... Read more

2 March, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Facebook fends off two days of phishing attacks

...appears to be a Facebook log-in page, but it is a fake site that steals their information when they type in their username and... Read more

1 May, 2009 by Elinor Mills

DNS attacks occurring, warns Kaminsky

...at a site that looks like the bank site but is a fake site set up to grab sensitive information like passwords. Security firm MessageLabs... Read more

22 August, 2008 by Elinor Mills

ABN Amro systems compromised

...to visit the bank's website, their browser was redirected to a fake site, allowing the attackers to overcome ABN Amro's two-factor authentication... Read more

19 April, 2007 by Tom Espiner

Firefox flaw sparks a fiery debate

...to have clicked on a phishing email and been taken to a fake site. "Where is the problem? I hardly think that a spoofed site... Read more

7 January, 2005 by ZDNet UK

Greatest security risk: Social engineering, says Gartner

...actually fake. "It took us some time to determine it was a fake site. It was not necessarily groundbreaking but quite a clever combination of... Read more

1 November, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...to say, this is swiftly sorted. Lloyds TSB eventually closes down the fake site, Adrian gets on Sky News at 7:30 in the morning... Read more

12 December, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...to say, this is swiftly sorted. Lloyds TSB eventually closes down the fake site, Adrian gets on Sky News at 7:30 in the morning... Read more

12 December, 2003

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