phishing in news
RSS phishing in newsAnti-malware: Top of the list for Internet Explorer 8
News The addition of malware protection to the existing anti-phishing protection will be rebranded as the Microsoft SmartScreen filter. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2. [03 Jul 2008]
Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News The UK Threat Assessment of Serious Organised Crime pinpoints a surge in attempts to hijack bank accounts using email phishing and key logging malware.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. [06 Jun 2008]
Revealed: Cyber crimefighting successes
News Soca has also sent out 46 alerts to UK business, which included 11 alerts to UK financial institutions detailing more than 46,000 online account details that had been compromised by phishing and virus attacks, a system for UK call centres to... [15 May 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration attempts and application flaw exploits, and more specific threats such as phishing attacks against users, in the form of forged emails purporting... [23 Apr 2008]
UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent
News Phishing email attacks on the UK have gone up by 200 per cent this year, the UK payments association Apacs has warned. Online banking fraud losses decreased a third from £33.5m in 2006 to £22.6m in 2007 but phishing incidents have climbed from 2... [16 Apr 2008]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News PayPal is stepping up its battle against phishing with new technology and by collaborating with others in the industry. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security... [11 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 increase of 167 per cent from the first half... [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 machines infected by spyware. [09 Apr 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]
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 risk management for online... [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 other malicious attacks to... [12 Mar 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the source of the majority of phishing emails targeting eBay users for personal and account details. Speaking at the e-crime congress in London, Lee said phishing remains the main threat... [10 Mar 2008]
UK banks targeted by phishing attacks
News Leading UK banks have been targeted by online criminals who used Storm botnets to unleash phishing attacks. Attackers used the Storm botnet as a fast flux-network, frequently rotating the IP address of the infected computers sending out the... [15 Feb 2008]
UK fraud hits 12-year high as methods go high-tech
News A spokesman for KPMG said high-tech cons such as phishing and other online scams are providing new opportunities for criminals. Security from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more. A is for Antivirus [04 Feb 2008]
