ebay scam phishing
Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News Blocking the scam emails before they hit in-boxes should cut down on the problem. is upgrading its Mail system with DomainKeys technology, to block phishing spam and other fraudulent emails that look... [04 Oct 2007]
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... [22 Jun 2007]
UK suffering fraud boom-time
News A typical skimming scam, involves fraudsters attaching a device to the entry slot of the cash machine to record the details of the card's magnetic strips as they are inserted into the machine. Typical... [07 Nov 2006]
PayPal tackles phishing trap
News PayPal has fixed a flaw in its website to block a sophisticated scam designed to obtain sensitive data from members, the payment service said on Friday. The company has no information on how many people may have fallen... [19 Jun 2006]
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 The scam involved a phishing email that exploited a scripting program on the bank's website to build an imitation site that attempted to trick customers into sharing their personal data. But with... [15 Mar 2005]
eBay: You've got (private) mail
News According to a report from online privacy watchdog Truste, seven out of 10 people who go online have received phishing emails, and 15 per cent of those have been duped into providing personal... [05 Jan 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. Scammers send the phishing email to existing Gmail account... [15 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Phishing
Cheat Sheet Then there is the fact that the bulk of phishing scam emails is adding to the general deluge of spam. The scam will be emailed out to large lists of people asking them to confirm their... [25 Jun 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... [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... [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. Hacking tactics all too familiar from PCs could soon be making their way to mobiles, with... [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]
IE "phishing" fix lockout causes more complaints
News The big exception, of course, is the phishing scam artists. The software giant made the change to stop scam artists from constructing URLs that appeared to link to a legitimate website... [05 Feb 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]
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