phishing
RSS phishingNo Phishing: Protecting Employees from E-mail Fraud
White Paper SPAM has evolved beyond just annoying junk e-mail advertisements to being a primary vehicle for phishing scams. These types of messages pose a tremendous e-mail security threat that can easily result in identity theft... [10 Apr 2008]
Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit
News The key security threats facing businesses range from mutations of established methods - such as malware or phishing - to less well-known ones, such as metasploit releases and 'pass the hash' attacks. [09 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards social-networking sites". The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an... [09 Apr 2008]
UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!
News Cyber crime targeting businesses is on the rise - while there were no reports of phishing emails in a 2004 BCC survey, the 2008 report found 31 per cent had fallen foul of phishing and 23 per cent had... [09 Apr 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment Criminals can call on directed phishing attacks using the simple expedients of ransacking rubbish bags and using Google to look for useful information on social networking sites and generally sprayed across the internet. [08 Apr 2008]
Botnet Threats and Solutions: Phishing
White Paper As a result of phishing via botnets, businesses and consumers are adversely impacted by tremendous financial losses, identity theft, and other damages. This white paper examines the existence of and interactions within... [29 Mar 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo This creation pictured is from a phishing program. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. See our photo story for more weird and wonderful creations. [27 Mar 2008]
Webcast: Anti-Spam Product Not Working? What More Companies are Switching to... and Why
White Paper In this recorded Webcast, learn first-hand from your colleagues why they are making the change to gain better protection from spam, viruses, phishing, and directory harvest attacks. Many email administrators are... [21 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment I don't want to fund an expensive leaflet drop telling businesses and consumers how to avoid phishing scams. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases... [20 Mar 2008]
Banks under attack: Phishing on the rise
News Phishing attacks on banking organisations and their customers across the globe has increased steadily over the last six months, according to the latest fraud report from security software specialist RSA. [18 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
Comment For example, of the possibly apocryphal case of a company being targeted by phishing scammers who were trying to trick their way into the network. Nothing odd in that. Except that - while it had his address on it - it... [13 Mar 2008]
Police backs calls for e-crime unit
News For example in the case of a phishing attack it may be there are a couple of hundred victims across the UK but at the moment it is recorded as a number of single incidents at local stations. Gareth Griffiths, head of UK... [12 Mar 2008]
e-Crime Crackdown - silicon.com launches national campaign
News Compounding this shortfall is the fact that Soca focuses mainly on computer crime linked to major international drug and people smuggling and fraud - leaving everyday phishing, hacking, distributed denial of service and... [12 Mar 2008]
Non Intrusive Learning Patterns (NILP): The Intelligent Spam Filtering Technology of the Future
White Paper Non Intrusive learning Patterns (NILP) from MicroWorld is an advanced, next generation technology that detects Spam and Phishing mails using unique algorithms. Spam menace is one of the biggest issues that cripple email... [12 Mar 2008]
Proactive Security at Mail Gateway - MailScan 5 for SMTP Servers
White Paper It protects organizations against Viruses, Worms, Trojans, Backdoors and many other malware, blocks Spam and Phishing mails, while providing total Content Security for email traffic. MailScan 5 for SMTP Servers is the... [12 Mar 2008]
