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- End users more vulnerable to spear phishing scams
- It may surprise you to find out how vulnerable end users are to phishing attacks. Now a new application may let you constructively realign end user behavior to protect your company's assets. by Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Top IT news for April 30: Microsoft could go hostile with Yahoo, 3G iPhone rumored at $199, new tool lets police crack PCs
- Top five headlines Report: Microsoft leaning toward proxy fight Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy Rumor: 3G iPhone to sell for US$199 Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime Wi-Fi cafes: Easy to find, but free is fading away ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- PayPal to get selective about browsers
- PayPal could resort to an outright ban of Web browsers that it considers to be old and vulnerable from using its services. Some of the key criteria appears to be the support of the relatively new EV SSL Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer standard as well as some form of...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- New phishing scam targets high level executives
- A new phishing attack has been circulating lately, but instead of trying to dupe millions of computer users into giving up their financial information, this one is aimed at high level executives. The e-mail scam purports to notify the executive about court proceedings and tries to get them to...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- PayPal to buy online fraud detection firm
- eBay-owned PayPal has announced the acquisition of privately-held online fraud detection firm Fraud Sciences. An excerpt from TechWorld: Fraud Sciences, a private company, has developed technology designed to differentiate between real and fraudulent transactions. That technology will be folded into PayPal's anti-fraud systems, which will...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Drive-by pharming simplifies identity theft
- The first real-world occurrence of drive-by pharming has finally been observed and substantiated. In reality it was only a matter of time as this type of attack was made public in 2006 as a white paper written by three security researchers associated with the Indiana University School of Informatics. The...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- How to avoid being a phishing Webserver admin
- In October I discussed the way people tend to misinterpret phishing botnet statistics. The key point was that people saw that many of the phishing Websites were on Linux servers, and somehow leaped to the conclusion this meant Linux desktops were parts of the botnets sending out phishing emails....
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Beware of vishing attacks via e-mail
- The Internet Crime Complaint Center has issued a warning on the rise of vishing attacks, which is like phishing in that the attacks are propagated through e-mail, but there's a difference. An excerpt from the IC3 site: Vishing operates like phishing by persuading consumers to divulge...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Norton Internet Security 2008: The Right Tool for the Job?
- The Job Windows computers require protection from a wide variety of common viruses and spyware programs, not too mention unwanted intrusions. Novice users are particularly vulnerable to system infections and identity theft. A single software suite is required that can address all these issues. The Tool ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- What can be done to combat overseas hackers?
- A high profile technology firm, Computer Associates CA, was hacked last week and, though the problem has been corrected, the hackers inserted code to redirect visitors to a Chinese Web site that was serving malicious code to the unsuspecting visitors. A similar attack was carried out on the Miami...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Trojan attacks bank accounts, automates wire transfers
- Anti-virus vendor SecureWorks has raised an alert on a variant of the Prg Trojan that pilfers commercial bank accounts by initiating wire transfers. An excerpt from SC Magazine: The latest attack is being orchestrated by a German group working in conjunction with UpLevel, a Russian malware-developing...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- How to get that phishy smell out of Outlook
- I can't think of any industry that sucks up as much creative energy as online scams. Perhaps if evildoers put their creative efforts to good, we might all be living in a golden age of technology. Instead, we inoculate ourselves almost daily against the menace that preys upon us. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Phishers attack top U.S. labs
- Two top military laboratories in the United States, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Lab, were the target of phishing attacks that resulted in access to personal information of visitors to the labs over a 14-year period. An excerpt from ComputerWorld: According to...
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Keep users from biting on that phishing expedition
- Phishing: (fish´ing) (n.) The act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for identity theft. The e-mail directs the user to visit a Web site where they...
- Blog posts 2007-12-09
- Phishing, spam, malware who's problem is it?
- I have read that it is the uneducated user who is the big problem for most of the things going wrong on the internet. And I have read about the knowledgeable IT staff infecting the network with the newest stuff. Who thinks it is just stupidity or a person just...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- The politics of phishing
- In early October of this year, Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian gave a presentation in Washington, DC about the potential risks of online political contributions. While I wasn't able to attend the presentation (I was about 1,500 miles away from DC at the time), the subject is an...
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- The politics of phishing
- And electing Ron Paul would more than double your incomeIf he makes true on his promise to eliminate the Fed Reserve bank. Since 1999, they have increase the money supply to such an extent that your money / salary are worth 50% less than they were in 2000. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-23
- Open source phishing: A call to arms
- Recently, consumer auction giant eBay announced that nearly 1,200 registered eBay users' information was stolen via phishing attacks. That's not shocking. What's shocking is that it's very likely the phishers were using rootkitted Linux boxes. They expected the attacks to come from Microsoft boxes. This time that's not the case....
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
- Yahoo teams up with eBay and PayPal to fight phishing attacks
- Yahoo is teaming up with eBay and its PayPal unit to block fake e-mails that are targeted towards Yahoo Mail users. Yahoo's own technology called DomainKeys is being used to authenticate the senders of e-mails. A quote from the article at Reuters: The technology upgrade will...
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Linux phishing botnet statistics can be deceptive
- The Register reports today that eBay's new chief information security officer CISO has noted a surprising trend ("eBay: Botnets are Linux-happy"). Specifically, in his previous employment as the CISO of Washington Mutual, evidence suggested that the majority of phishing attempts targeting the company originated on Linux systems. The obvious implication...
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
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