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RSS phishScammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a US-based bank that launches a live chat window where victims are tricked into revealing more information, researchers at the RSA FraudAction Research Team said on Wednesday. [18 Sep 2009]
How Not to Look Like a Phish: Tips to Help Your Organization Minimize False Positives
White Paper Phishing is the criminal act of posing as a legitimate business via digital communications to extract information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and banking account numbers. Businesses absorb more than 90 percent of... [15 Aug 2009]
An Intelligent System for Phish Detection, Using Dynamic Analysis and Template Matching
White Paper Most of the existing anti-phishing solutions fail to handle the fuzziness involved in phish detection, thus leading to a large number of false positives. Phishing, or stealing of sensitive information on the web, has... [31 Jul 2009]
Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures
White Paper This paper discusses the history of the Rock Phish Gang as well as their attack methodology and how it has evolved. It also review the actions that businesses can take to prevent and defeat an attack by the Rock... [01 Jul 2009]
Evaluating the Wisdom of Crowds in Assessing Phishing Websites
White Paper One group, called 'Phish-Tank', has tried to leverage the 'Wisdom of Crowds' to generate an open source list that strives to be as complete and accurate as possible. Phishing is the process of enticing people to visit... [01 Jul 2009]
A Hybrid Phish Detection Approach by Identity Discovery and Keywords Retrieval
White Paper This paper, proposes a novel hybrid phish detection method based on information extraction (IE) and information retrieval (IR) techniques. The keywords-retrieval component utilizes IR algorithms exploiting the power of... [30 Jun 2009]
Anti-Phishing by Smart Mobile Device
White Paper This paper introduces a novel method to anti-phish by smart device. Off late, phishing is a popular technique to thieve user's authentication information, especially password. The key issue is that it is difficult for... [30 Jun 2009]
Can Phishing Be Foiled?
White Paper Phish e-mails are constructed by con artists to look like legitimate communications, often from familiar and reputable companies, and usually ask victims to take urgent action to avoid a consequence or receive a reward. [30 Jun 2009]
The Origins of Social Engineering
White Paper It derives from fishing because this social engineering technique lures its victims (phish) into disclosing their user names, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal information. One would be hard pressed... [30 Jun 2009]
A Pretty Kettle of Phish
White Paper "Phishing" usually refers to the practice of posting a deceptive message as part of an attempt at fraud and/or identity theft. It's sometimes referred to as "Carding", "Hoax Mail", or "Spoofing". This paper, will refer exclusively to the... [20 Jun 2009]
Phish Phodder: Is User Education Helping or Hindering?
White Paper This paper evaluates current research on how end users are susceptible to phishing attacks and ID theft, evaluates a range of web-based educational and informational resources in general and summarizes the pros and cons of the quiz... [20 Jun 2009]
Engate Delivers Enterprise-Class Email Protection and Preemptively Stops Progressive Botnet Attacks
White Paper Unfortunately, over the past three years, unsolicited emails such as spam, phish, dangerous attachments and botnet attacks began to overwhelm employee's inboxes at an alarming rate. Atreus Systems delivers... [21 Jan 2009]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News Once the phishers had the contact list, they attempted to phish Salesforce.com customers. Details of Salesforce.com's customers were stolen as a result of the password being surrended, the CRM services company admitted... [08 Nov 2007]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer for MySpace, said in the statement: "Individuals who try to spam or phish our members are not welcome on MySpace. MySpace.com has filed suit against Sanford Wallace, seeking to bar... [28 Mar 2007]
Symantec secures WholeSecurity
News WholeSecurity also maintains a list of phishing sites, known as the Phish Report Network. Symantec has agreed to acquire privately held WholeSecurity, which makes products to fight phishing scams and detect malicious... [23 Sep 2005]
