phishing
RSS phishing5 years ago... eBay accused of online fraud
News The biggest problem with eBay is the anonymity which sellers can enjoy - especially since 'phishing' scams enabled users to sell items in the guise of another eBay member. 26.01.99: Online auction house eBay is in hot... [26 Jan 2004]
American phishing scam uses anti-terrorism hook
News The scheme is only the latest attempt to mine personal and financial information through fraud, a criminal activity known as 'phishing'. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), the national insurer of US bank... [26 Jan 2004]
AOL scammer hooked by police
News The 55-year-old Virginia woman was sentenced by a local court this week to 46 months in prison after phishing for credit card details by sending out fake emails claiming to come from AOL's billing department. [22 Jan 2004]
Hackers go all out with PayPal spam phishing scam Trojan
News A new virus has been found in the wild that manages to combine users' favourite bugbears - spam, phishing, PayPal scams and viruses - in one handy malware package. The virus arrives via an email, which is thought to have... [16 Jan 2004]
One in 10 affected by ID theft
News However, 44 per cent of respondents also said they have received an email 'phishing' for personal information. In recent months phishing scams - so called because they trawl for personal data such as... [05 Jan 2004]
Fix released for flawed open source IE fix
News The Internet Explorer flaw, which was first reported in late November, allowed a browser to display one URL in the address bar while the page being viewed is actually hosted elsewhere, making the user more susceptible to ruses like... [23 Dec 2003]
Warning about 'phishing' turns out to be scam
News An email purporting to be an advisory from Australian bank Westpac to its customers about the dangers of online fraud is itself fraudulent, a spokeswoman confirmed today. The email, headlined 'Online Banking: Protect Yourself from... [19 Dec 2003]
5 years ago... eBay has its back to the wall over online auction fraud
News Recently the practice of phishing has had its sights set firmly on the auction site. And when users cotton on, it's the original victim of the phishing who takes the blame. 15.12.98: The suspension of a... [15 Dec 2003]
Cybercrime: education not legislation the answer
News Philip Virgo, secretary general of EURIM, said that as long as people are so easily fooled by scammers, no amount of legislation will solve the problem of phishing, where fake emails are sent to online banking users... [12 Dec 2003]
HSBC hit with spoofed website
News Global banking giant HSBC was hit with a 'spoofed' website made up to look like its Hong Kong home page on Friday. Using the bank's logo and a similar sounding web address, www.hkhsbc.com, the site had a logon page that requested... [09 Dec 2003]
Leader: Who do you think you are?
Leader So it was that by the autumn one of the biggest stories, even in mainstream press, became 'phishing' - typically involving badly crafted spam emails from criminals impersonating well-known banks, sent with the intent of... [04 Dec 2003]
Leader: Don't fall for same old scams
Leader It seems that before the hullabaloo over the latest Paypal 'phishing' scam had died down, then another one targeting customers of banks such as Barclays was on the loose. The volume of emails containing a variety of... [27 Nov 2003]
£350,000 internet ID theft gang get 15 years
News The use of the internet and email to perpetrate ID theft has become an increasing concern for police and financial institutions in recent months, following a spate of 'phishing' scams that tried to trick people into... [21 Nov 2003]
'PayPal' Mimail worm variant on the loose
News But in a twist on the spate of 'phishing' scams in recent weeks, the email tells the victim not to send personal information via email, saying that email is insecure - and asks them to run an attached program instead. [14 Nov 2003]
Leader: The end of the 'phishing' line
Leader The practice of 'phishing' - whereby spam emails try to lure unsuspecting victims to enter account details on a fake web page of a trusted institution such as a bank or ecommerce site such as eBay - has received more... [12 Nov 2003]
