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Copycat phisher arrested for Smile attacks
News An NHTCU spokeswoman said the man is believed to be a copycat phisher and is not connected to the organised crime group that is behind the global swathe of phishing scams targeting bank users in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US.
[April 29, 2004, 12:30]
Suspected phisher arrested
Talkback Don't worry Goodin, there's plenty of sex in prison.and you won't need a userid or password.
[February 6, 2006, 19:10]
AOL phisher faces 101 years in jail
News A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out email scams as well as related crimes. Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was convicted Friday on multiple counts by a jury in the US District...
[January 17, 2007, 9:00]
Suspected phisher arrested
News A California man who allegedly duped America Online customers into disclosing their credit card information over the Web was arrested on fraud and other charges Thursday. According to the charges, Jeffrey Brett Goodin of Azusa, California, used the...
[January 27, 2006, 9:30]
Salesforce tight-lipped after phishing attack
News To be clear, a phisher tricked someone into disclosing a password, but this intrusion did not stem from a security flaw in our application or database. Unfortunately, a very small number of our customers who were contacted had end users that...
[November 7, 2007, 14:17]
Toxic phishers scam the unwary
News Not only that, once a phisher has succeeded with a particular institution, the trust chain -- especially in email -- is broken. But if you are a PayPal member, as I am, the phisher has at that point broken through the unofficial security-by...
[January 12, 2004, 14:55]
Yahoo hosting 'thousands' of phishing sites
Talkback In the end, a phisher is going to do more than that, though. True, any site can just keep bouncing from web host to web host using the same domain. Problems.problems.
[September 7, 2005, 5:47]
Mitigating the fallout
Talkback While there is certainly a non-vanishing risk of some phisher posing as openid.sun.com, we have taken certain steps to make sure that our users are reasonably protected: the weak Debian-generated certificate has been replaced and revoked, and most...
[August 14, 2008, 15:33]
eBay acts over privacy fears
Talkback The phisher created a purchase response she thought was legitimate, but she didn't realize until the end of the data gathering process it was fraudulent. This is great that eBay UK is responding to privacy concerns by it's users.
[September 27, 2006, 18:35]
Phishers improve bait as they target ISPs
Talkback Arrive at the phisher's home at 3am to discuss their phishing tactics. Maybe I'm stupid with this remark, but don't phishers have to have a bank account to be successful? Target the flow of the money.
[August 19, 2004, 16:57]
Phishing flaw found - but not in IE
Talkback Each of these ambiguities offers an opportunity for a Phisher to conduct his Scam. One of the biggest arguments out there against IDN is the Phishing argument. This has now largely been negated by ICANN banning registeration of mixed character...
[November 20, 2005, 14:16]
Do senders have a right to your inbox?
Talkback It just sounds like a tool for the phisher to me, so I expect to receive many more cack email's due to this Of course this is an invasion. Hence the fact I now receive a ' do you want to send a read receipt' rather than it happening arbitrarily.
[June 9, 2004, 17:26]
Phishing sites double in April
News We have seen cases where the phisher will put thousands of URLs on the same domain," said Laura Mather, senior scientist at MarkMonitor. April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the...
[May 24, 2007, 16:13]
Microsoft: Phishing losses greatly over-estimated
News Since each phisher independently seeks to maximise his return, the resource is over-grazed and [on average] yields far less than it is capable of. The financial losses experienced by victims of phishing scams may be up to 50 times less than...
[January 9, 2009, 16:15]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News The financial services sector continues top be the most frequently targeted industry sector, and eBay remains the phisher's favourite individual target. Phishing attacks have increased in quantity and quality over the past two months, according to...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Two security flaws discovered in Firefox
News With this vulnerability, an adept phisher could fool the browser into believing that a fraudulent site is actually secure by adding particular characters into the URL of its website. A security company has reported two new flaws in the Mozilla...
[February 8, 2007, 9:41]
Twitter hack targets Obama, Britney
News The object of the scam was to collect people's Twitter sign-in details, which would allow the phisher to send messages in the guise of the compromised user. High-profile users of microblogging site Twitter have had their accounts compromised by a...
[January 6, 2009, 11:52]
Twitter plays host to data-stealing malware
News A spammer or phisher could abuse this vulnerability to gain thousands of 'followers' and attempt social-engineering attacks," Ryan Naraine, security evangelist at Kaspersky, wrote in a blog on ZDNet.com.
[August 6, 2008, 13:04]
'Clean up this Internet effluent now'
Talkback The offence of 'DISTRIBUTING UNREQUESTED INFORMATION OF ANY TYPE' commits the SPAMMER, Virus Writer, Phisher etc.on first offence) to a minimum jail sentence of TEN years hard labour WITHOUT parole and WITHOUT access to any and all forms of I.T...
[May 11, 2004, 22:45]
Qurb 3.0 review
Reviews Its unique Domain Verification tool checks whether the originating IP address matches the email address in the From field, so you can be confident that email came from, say, eBay and not some phisher in Belarus trying to steal your credit card...
[March 29, 2005, 12:45]
