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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]
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]
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]
Phishing attacks powered by 'just five' zombie networks
News All phishing attacks launched across the Internet come from one of just five networks of zombie PCs, according to research published by security firm CipherTrust this week. By analysing phishing emails to find the IP addresses of the computers that...
[October 20, 2004, 18:10]
Phishing attacks up 1,000-fold since September
News The number of phishing emails circulating on the Web has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months, according to email security company MessageLabs. Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking...
[April 19, 2004, 17:50]
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]
Protecting the Web: Phishing, Malware, and Other Security Threats
White Papers Spam leads users to online scams and phishing Web pages, which cyber-criminals use to steal users' financial data and passwords. Web site operators, Internet users, and online service providers are besieged by a growing array of abuses and threats.
[June 20, 2009, 0:00]
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 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 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 in and Around April Through September 2006
White Papers This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing.
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
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 in the Middle of the Stream" - Today's Threats to Online Banking
White Papers Attacks spread from simply spamming e-mails with links to fake web sites, which is also known as phishing, to Trojans that monitor attempts to log on to online account web services and then begin recording the pressed key strokes, take screen...
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
Phishing Attacks in and Around April Through September 2006
White Papers This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing.
[December 16, 2006, 0:00]
Phishing attacks hook more and more victims
News Phishing attacks have increased in quantity and quality over the past two months, according to research published by the Anti-Phishing Working Group on Monday. Phishing is an Internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails...
[March 22, 2004, 12:45]
Phishing is a real threat to financial firms
White Papers Phishing is an ever-growing form of Internet-based fraud. The costs of phishing to financial institutions — in terms of actual dollars and damage to brands — are too significant to ignore. For the financial services industry, the Internet has...
[April 11, 2008, 8:32]
Phishing scam 'most devious ever'
News The email, distributed en-masse to Westpac customers, represents the latest example of "phishing scams," designed to catch the unwary and fool them into divulging their online-banking security details.
[March 3, 2004, 8:00]
Phishing overtakes viruses and Trojans
News Phishing attacks have outstripped the number of emails infected with viruses and Trojans for the first time, according to security experts. Security mail services vendor MessageLabs reported on Monday that in January 2007, one in 93.3 (1.07 percent...
[January 30, 2007, 13:12]
Phishing attacks ease off
News Research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found 13,141 new phishing emails were reported to the organisation in February, an increase of just two percent compared to results from January. The number of phishing Web sites supporting these...
[March 30, 2005, 15:40]
Phishing
White Papers Spammers have discovered a new way to obtain your financial account information by developing a spam-borne email technique called "phishing". Phishing attacks use social engineering, 'Spoofed' e-mails and 'Spoofed' urls to fool even discriminating...
[January 31, 2009, 6:50]
