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Tax-refund phishing scams hit an all-time high
News The number of scam emails offering fake tax refunds hit an all-time high last month. The phishing deluge has continued into October, with taxpayers alerting HMRC to 10,000 scam attempts in a single day... [16 Oct 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The scammers are using the open-source Jabber IM protocol to manage the one-on-one chat, RSA said, declining to identify the bank involved in the scam. Online scammers have created a phishing site... [18 Sep 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Several news organisations were targeted in the rogue ad scam, according to a New York Times statement. Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers are going in through... [16 Sep 2009]
Taxman's scam warning: Fraudsters want your passwords
News It's not the first time the HMRC has been targeted by the fraudsters: last month, the taxman warned of a phishing scam that claimed to come from the department, offering a refund. The phishing scam... [06 Aug 2009]
Are Spyware and Phishing Secretly Compromising Your Network?
White Paper By stopping threats at the internet level, one will be able to prevent the headaches and clean-up costs associated with a spyware infection or a targeted phishing scam and therefore lower the Total Cost of Ownership. [01 Aug 2009]
Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures
White Paper Phishing, an online scam in which people are tricked into divulging sensitive personal and account information, is a serious threat both to consumers and institutions doing business on the Web. This... [01 Jul 2009]
Improved Phishing Detection Using Model-Based Features
White Paper Filtering approaches using blacklists are not completely effective as about every minute a new phishing scam is created. Criminals are trying to convince unsuspecting online users to reveal passwords,... [01 Jul 2009]
Security and Trust: The Backbone of Doing Business over the Internet
White Paper Learn about technology available that helps online businesses protect sensitive customer data, authenticate themselves, and build consumer trust--technology that also helps customers differentiate trustworthy Web sites... [05 Jun 2009]
Bank phishing fraudsters learn to spell
News As a result, any customers that do click on the link in a phishing email are alerted to the scam, rather than simply finding a broken link. According to David Shroyer, Bank of America senior vice president of... [23 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News The cases include a suspected insider trader at a bank where €95m had gone missing and a father and daughter accused of defrauding Britons of £35m in a boiler-room scam. Later this year Colp will launch the NFRC, a... [25 Mar 2009]
London: Britain's card fraud capital
News According to a survey by insurance company CPP that quizzed 1,600 individuals, one quarter said they had suffered from some sort of card scam in 2008.silicon.com Retail & Leisure The CPP findings tally with a similar... [29 Jan 2009]
London Olympics cyber cops hit the ground running
News McMurdie added police are already seeing scam sites springing up with similar web addresses to official Games web pages, in an attempt to steal people's money and personal details. The UK's new cyber crime unit has been... [13 Jan 2009]
Are you talking to the real taxman?
News HMRC said it had received 11,000 scam emails since April last year and warned of a second wave of emails after the deadline passes, when people are waiting to hear about genuine tax rebates.silicon.com Public Sector [08 Jan 2009]
Cineworld goes green with virtualisation
Case Study Nigerian' money scam - What happens when you reply? McGann added that online ordering is crucial in terms of revenue so the website needs to be reliable. UK cinema chain Cineworld has relaunched its... [15 Dec 2008]
UK consumers worth £14k each to cyber criminals
News A fifth of small UK businesses have been a victim of an internet scam and one third of companies have been infected by a virus, a separate GSO survey of about 1,000 businesses with fewer than 10 employees also found. [17 Nov 2008]
