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Defence companies targeted in spear-phishing attack

...according to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude. Photo credit: BIS The 'spear-phishing' attacks came to light as a result of information sharing between business... Read more

3 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Hotspot Shield 2.53

Hotspot Shield 2.53

...Shield also protects against 3.5 million malware threats, including infected websites, phishing and spam sites. Browse the Internet privately and anonymously. Hotspot Shield does... Read more

10 May, 2012

Spear phishing: Are you cybercriminals' next target

...s Uri Rivner told silicon.com: "We are starting to see spear phishing as the entry point for many and various cybercrime attacks - be it... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Nick Heath

Google-backed DMARC system aims to block phishers

...on a standard that can be used across the internet for blocking phishing emails. On Monday, a group of 15 companies launched DMARC.org, which... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Google and Microsoft get behind anti-phishing start-up

...an anti-fraud start-up, which is launching on Wednesday, to keep phishing messages out of people's inboxes. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL are... Read more

30 November, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Three men jailed over £3m phishing scheme

...have been jailed for luring British and Irish bank customers into a phishing scam that police believe netted more than £3m for a criminal gang... Read more

11 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google takes out Gmail phishing plot in China

...disrupted" a plan to gain access to hundreds of Gmail accounts through phishing attacks. That effort, which Google says originated in Jinan, China, targeted user... Read more

2 June, 2011 by Josh Lowensohn

Epsilon was forewarned of phishing risk

...comes four months after one of its technology partners warned about targeted phishing attacks on email service providers and on its own network. Epsilon revealed... Read more

8 April, 2011 by Elinor Mills
Ad-Aware Pro Security 10

Ad-Aware Pro Security 10

...two-way firewall, an email protection engine and advanced web filters against phishing attacks Read more

28 March, 2012

Dawn raids net 14 suspects in £1m phishing theft

...Police have arrested 14 people on suspicion of being part of a phishing gang that stole £1m from a single victim, spending the money on... Read more

15 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

McAfee: Spam in retreat in UK

...mail is still a clear danger because of the increase in spear phishing, or more targeted attacks. In years past, spammers sent their payloads to... Read more

22 February, 2012 by Lance Whitney

Hackers compromise TicketWeb email system

...UK customers from its systems. TicketWeb warned customers on Sunday to ignore phishing emails sent on Saturday that attempted to lure people into clicking on... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Facebook scammers go phishing in chat sessions

...order steal personal data, Kaspersky has warned. Image credit: Kaspersky "This Facebook phishing attack is pretty interesting because it does not just try to trick... Read more

16 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

Norton patch remedies Facebook blocking

...of Norton Antivirus blocked access to Facebook after mistaking it for a phishing site, Symantec told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News on Thursday... Read more

14 October, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Phishing scam targets Tumblr logins

...Users of microblogging site Tumblr have been targeted with phishing scams that require people to type in their login credentials to see... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Elinor Mills

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"cites" even. Ouch!

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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