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Thousands of Hotmail account details posted online
News Hotmail account logins and passwords have been posted to a public forum following a phishing attack. For more, see Phishing attack hits thousands of Hotmail accounts on ZDNet UK. Several... [06 Oct 2009]
The Fraudster Economy Model: The Dynamics of Operating a Business in the Underground
White Paper Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America Online passwords from unsuspecting users. And while the complexity and sophistication of phishing attacks... [06 Oct 2009]
Taxman's scam warning: Fraudsters want your passwords
News While the HMRC refused to speculate on how the criminals got hold of users' passwords, phishing and keylogging viruses are potential avenues for the scammers. It's not the first time the HMRC has been... [06 Aug 2009]
Mail-SeCure: Anti Phishing
White Paper Phishing (also known as carding and spoofing) is a form of social engineering, characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information (such as passwords and credit card details), by... [31 Jul 2009]
Pharewell to Phishing: Secure Direction and Redirection Over the Web
White Paper Unfortunately, this assumption is not valid as it became clear recently that, through human mistakes or Phishing or Pharming attacks, a displayed yellow page may not be the same one that the user has intended to request... [31 Jul 2009]
Improved Phishing Detection Using Model-Based Features
White Paper Phishing emails are a real threat to internet communication and web economy. Filtering approaches using blacklists are not completely effective as about every minute a new phishing scam is created. This... [01 Jul 2009]
Evaluating the Wisdom of Crowds in Assessing Phishing Websites
White Paper Phishing is the process of enticing people to visit fraudulent websites and persuading them to enter identity information such as usernames and passwords. Researchers have proposed many technical... [01 Jul 2009]
Phishing, Pharming, and Vishing, Oh My! a Guide to the "INGs" and How to Remain Protected
White Paper The flaw in the DNS (Domain Name System), which acts like the Internet's telephone book, could allow Internet traffic to be secretly redirected so thieves could, for example, hijack a bank's Web address and collect customer... [01 Jul 2009]
Anti-Phishing Based on Automated Individual White-List
White Paper In phishing and pharming, users could be easily tricked into submitting their username/passwords into fraudulent web sites whose appearances look similar as the genuine ones. The traditional blacklist... [30 Jun 2009]
Visual-Similarity-Based Phishing Detection
White Paper Phishing is a form of online fraud that aims to steal a user's sensitive information, such as online banking passwords or credit card numbers. Recent statistics about the increasing number of... [30 Jun 2009]
Phishing 101
White Paper Phishing is the process of enticing people to visit fraudulent websites and persuading them to enter identity information such as usernames and passwords. Since phishing websites are no... [30 Jun 2009]
An Anti-Phishing Application for the End User
White Paper Seeking sensitive user data in the form of online banking user-id and passwords or credit card information, which may then be used by 'Phishers' for their own personal gain is the primary objective of the... [30 Jun 2009]
5 Steps to Secure Internet SSO
White Paper Such a situation is not only cumbersome; it is inherently insecure, being especially vulnerable to phishing, Trojans and other malware that can quickly spread throughout the entire organization. Employees today may need... [30 Jun 2009]
GeoTrust Extended Validation SSL and Customer Confidence
White Paper These Phishing sites then harvest sensitive personal data such as passwords, identity numbers and credit card numbers. Criminals set up phony "Phishing" sites that look legitimate, yet... [30 Jun 2009]
Anti-Phishing: How to Prevent Identity Theft and Safeguard Information Assets With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
White Paper One of the techniques they use is Phishing (pronounced "Fishing"), which relates to Web attacks aimed at fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details,... [30 Jun 2009]
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