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Phishing Attacks Hotting Up
News Phishing attacks are increasing in frequency and sophistication while shifting from larger to smaller financial institutions, according to security vendor RSA. The vendor has tracked shifts in phishing demographics, and claims they are being driven...
[November 29, 2006, 17:02]
Phishing Growing Exponentially
News The number of phishing Web sites is increasing by 50 percent every month and fraudsters are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to fool Internet users into revealing personal information, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's...
[October 12, 2004, 10:45]
Phishing Attacks Soar As More Brands Are Targeted
News Phishing attacks reached a new high at the end of 2005 after growing steadily all year, according to a report published on Wednesday. The number of unique email-based fraud attacks detected in November 2005 was 16,882, almost double the 8,975...
[January 18, 2006, 16:10]
Application-Level Attacks: Phishing And Session Hijacking (Level 300)
White Papers The webcast also examines the method of Google hacking and explores the fundamentals of using XSS attacks with phishing techniques, spam, and even touch-screen terminals and kiosks. This webcast will provide in-depth demonstrations of a variety of...
[February 11, 2005, 23:00]
Phishing Attacks Up 20 Percent In June
News There were almost 1,500 unique phishing attacks in June, a monthly increase of 19 percent, according to a report published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) on Wednesday. Most phishing attacks are emails pretending to come from banks or...
[August 4, 2004, 16:35]
Phishing Still On The Up
News Fraudsters ramped up phishing attacks by 29 percent in November, according to a new report. The number of phishing sites reached 1,518 last month, the Anti-Phishing Working Group said in a report released on Wednesday.
[December 16, 2004, 8:40]
Phishing Hole 'left Open' By Banks
News An easily remedied Web site loophole may be leaving banks and other companies that do business online more susceptible to phishing attacks, according to Netcraft. With these sites, the attackers can try to dupe unsuspecting consumers into falling...
[March 15, 2005, 7:55]
Phishing Attacks Rise Ten Fold In 2004
News The number of phishing attacks being launched each month has increased ten fold this year, security company MessageLabs reported on Monday. The company, which has intercepted almost 20 million phishing emails throughout 2004, said in its annual...
[December 6, 2004, 13:20]
Phishing Attacks Surge
News There has been a massive increase in the number of attempted phishing attacks and a huge rise in the amount of money lost to online fraud, according to APACS, the UK payment services association. The Association of Payment Clearing Services (APACS...
[November 7, 2006, 15:10]
Phishing Shield Makes Money For ISPs
News A Denver start-up has come up with a way for internet service providers to offer customers a phishing shield and make some money doing it. ISPs can install software developed by Simplicita on their networks to display a Yahoo search page, including...
[March 28, 2007, 9:16]
Phishing Kits Fuel Online Fraud
News The number of phishing Web sites grew by about 65 percent in December, which security experts say is due to the increasing use of easy-to-use "phishing kits". The Anti-Phishing Working Group's report for December revealed that although the number...
[February 28, 2006, 9:10]
Phishing Attacks Unleashed On UK Banks
News Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to unleash phishing attacks. Attackers used the Storm botnet as a fast flux-network, frequently rotating the IP address of the infected computers sending out the...
[February 18, 2008, 7:34]
Phishing Still On The Up
Talkback Skype seem to have unwittingly got themselves caught up in a Phishing scam. In a vain effort to improve their customer payment process for "SkypeOut", they are now directing customers to a very dubious site called moneybookers.com.
[December 16, 2004, 12:48]
Phishing And The Threat To Corporate Networks
White Papers This paper explains online fraud known as phishing, examines how it threatens businesses and looks at the dramatic rise in the number of attacks in recent years. Phishing methods and tricks are described and ways of protecting computers and...
[January 14, 2005, 23:00]
Phishing Costs 'overestimated'
News Monetary losses from phishing may not be as high as some analysts have estimated, a financial consultancy firm is contending. In a report released Wednesday, TowerGroup said phishing attacks this year will account for less than $150m in consumer...
[December 2, 2004, 7:55]
Phishing Flaw Found - But Not In IE
Talkback One of the biggest arguments out there against IDN is the Phishing argument. The argument therefore develops into the imperative of introducing IDN to prevent Phishing Scams in Asia. I feel that we should no longer be silent on the issue of...
[November 20, 2005, 14:16]
Phishing
Talkback with millions of dollars spent on anti phishing campaigns in the US it makes me wonder, if the Swedes could have done the same, as with most computer users they are dumb as a box of rocks one of the industry mags i get said 2 days ago, (yes i am...
[January 22, 2007, 15:52]
MSDN Webcast: Preventing Attacks At The Application Level: Phishing And Session Hijacking (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast also includes current methods that hackers use to carry out phishing attacks, techniques you can use to prevent them, and how to respond to an ongoing phishing attack. This webcast provides an in-depth look at a variety of techniques...
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
Phishing Sites Double In April
News April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report by industry association the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The number of unique sites detected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) rose to 55,643 in April 2007...
[May 24, 2007, 16:13]
Microsoft: Phishing Is Going Out Of Fashion
News The practice of phishing for bank details, in which fake emails claim to come from a legitimate financial institution and try to elicit account details, is traditionally associated with highly organised criminal networks.
[December 13, 2006, 12:46]
