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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]
Shooting Phish in a Barrel...
White Paper Phishing is derived from the phrase 'Password harvesting fishing' and describes the process of luring sensitive information, such as a password and other personal information, from a victim by masquerading as someone trustworthy. [27 Jul 2006]
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]
Information Security Practice
White Paper Virus, Trojan Horse, Zombie, Bomb, Spoof, Phish, Spyware, Worm - the jargon of IT system attacks seems never ending. Sophisticated hacker tools are easily obtained. Well-funded and highly motivated organizations back our... [30 Aug 2005]
Darkmail: Cyber nasties just got nastier
News The top five in July in descending order were: W32.Netsky.P, Phish-BankFraud.eml.b, W32.Mytob.DF, W32.Mytob.EE and W32.Mytob.ED. The number of phishing emails sent to UK businesses increased by 45 per cent in July,... [03 Aug 2005]
Microsoft gets outside help for IE 7
News WholeSecurity, via a project called the Phish Report Network, has thousands of websites in its blacklist and adds more all the time from the hundreds of new sites that contributors flag daily, said John Ball, senior... [29 Jul 2005]
Phishers branch out to smaller bank scams
News The number of people complaining about falling victim to or being targeted by a phishing scam has doubled in Australia over the past few months, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). [17 Jun 2005]
Phishers turn their aim on corporate networks
News This is a very sophisticated corporate phish - we are beginning to collect some very serious ones. Organised crime gangs are developing phishing attacks against corporate networks in an attempt to steal passwords and... [22 Apr 2005]
'Psst...want the tools to be a cybercriminal?'
News The emergence of these 'build your own phish' kits means that anyone can now mimic bona fide banking websites and convince customers to disclose sensitive information such as passwords," Cluley said. Some websites are... [20 Aug 2004]
Can you "phish" out fraudulent emails?
News So you think you can smell a "phish" a mile off? Over the last 12 months, the phishing phenomenon has taken America by storm. A report published in May 2004 concluded that a staggering 57 million consumers in the US had... [03 Aug 2004]
New PayPal Mimail variant spreading rapidly
News The worm has been rated highly dangerous because of the risk it carries for PayPal users: "Someone has gone to a considerable amount of trouble to fashion PayPal-lookalike screens and 'phish' for credit card details,"... [18 Nov 2003]
California Dreamin' of an end to spam
News Recent highly organised scams trying to ‘phish’ for bank account details from customers of institutions such as Barclays, Citibank, Halifax, Lloyds TSB and Natwest have propelled the scam email into the limelight. [28 Oct 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: SMS spam, go phish and Windows Media Center
Comment Forrester Research recently published a forecast and analysis of European mobile messaging growth. While it forecasts that short message services (SMS) will peak and plateau in 2004 and years beyond, it forecasts 100 per cent compound... [29 Sep 2003]
ID theft - very 21st century, very serious
Comment Setting up false websites to harvest - or 'phish' for - names and credit card numbers or even AOL or eBay account details is nothing new. The strange case of Derek Bond - the hapless British pensioner wrongly detained in... [26 Feb 2003]
