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The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up That's 'good news' in the loosest sense if you happen to be among the two per cent of people who have fallen victim to a phishing scam. Phishing involves the sending of fraudulent emails which ape the branding of well... [22 Jun 2007]
Why does phishing work?
News Speaking at the E-Crime Congress in London last week, Bernhard Otupal, a crime intelligence officer for high-tech crime at Interpol, said consumers are not only still falling for this kind scam in large numbers but... [03 Apr 2006]
Phishers script their way into online banking
News But with cross-site scripting, people are more likely to fall for the scam, because the URL actually belongs to a real business. The scam involved a phishing email that exploited a scripting program on... [15 Mar 2005]
Scammers use Gmail invite as phishing hook
News Now the scammers have caught on and are using the Gmail allure for a phishing scam to harvest email addresses and passwords. The currently invite-only service has even provoked people trying to sell their Gmail addresses... [15 Sep 2004]
Alarming rise in phishing attacks
News Phishing is an internet scam where official-looking emails attempt to fool users into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information. This was illustrated by the Anti-Phishing Working Group's... [26 May 2004]
Phishing line hooks more and more victims
News Phishing is an internet scam in which unsuspecting users receive official-looking emails that attempt to fool them into disclosing online passwords, user names and other personal information such as bank details. [23 Mar 2004]
DoS and phishing attacks: coming to a mobile near you?
News It's possible, using roughly the same tools as the phishing scam, to scupper someone's mobile. All it takes is a laptop with Bluetooth, a premium rate phone line and some nifty social engineering to carry out some... [20 Feb 2004]
Phishing attacks get clever
News According to Jevans, the phishers are primarily after credit card information, so a typical scam email would tell the user that their credit card had expired or that the company was having a billing problem and needed... [05 Feb 2004]
