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A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons
White Paper Since each phisher in dependently seeks to maximize his return, the resource is over-grazed and yields far less than it is capable of. The situation stabilizes only when the average phisher is making... [01 Jul 2009]
SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
White Paper The phisher creates a web site that is deceptively similar to the registrar's site to induce the customer into accessing his domain management account and unwittingly disclose his account credentials to the... [01 Jul 2009]
Spam, Phishing, and the Looming Challenge of Big Botnets
White Paper What could a spammer or phisher do with a botnet of a thousand machines? a hundred thousand? a million? Send lots of email" is the least worrisome answer to these questions. As anti-spam and anti-phishing defenses... [01 Jul 2009]
A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing Attacks
White Paper Often a phisher tries to lure her victim into clicking a URL pointing to a rogue page. Phishing is form of identity theft that combines social engineering techniques and sophisticated attack vectors to harvest financial... [30 Jun 2009]
Anti-Phishing: How to Prevent Identity Theft and Safeguard Information Assets With Finjan's Active Real-Time Code Inspection
White Paper An attack could also result in employee login information being compromised, allowing a phisher to get access to an employee's network account and thus accessing confidential information. Off late cybercriminals are... [30 Jun 2009]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News To be clear, a phisher tricked someone into disclosing a password but this intrusion did not stem from a security flaw in our application or database. Harris wrote: "Unfortunately, a very small number of our customers... [08 Nov 2007]
Phishing sites doubled last month - report
News Laura Mather, senior scientist at MarkMonitor, said: "We have seen cases where the phisher will put thousands of URLs on the same domain. April saw a doubling in the number of unique phishing sites, according to a report... [25 May 2007]
Pair of flaws pop up in Firefox
News With this vulnerability, an adept phisher could fool the browser into believing a fraudulent site is actually secure by adding particular characters into the URL of its website. A security company has reported two new... [08 Feb 2007]
IE 7 gives secure sites the green light
News Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a new feature in Internet Explorer 7 meant to combat phishing scams. In early January, the software giant made a change on its computer systems that allowed websites fitted with a new type of... [05 Feb 2007]
Leader: Fraud - both a public and private sector problem
Leader On the other hand, witness the reaction of a fleeced customer of a bank that has had its name used by a phisher. It seems there are dozens of stories being written at the moment about schemes to protect gullible... [09 Aug 2005]
'Anti-phishing' verbal signatures get thumbs up
News I caused them great consternation by refusing until they had satisfied me that they were not a phisher. With phishing attacks on the increase there has been growing support for the introduction of 'verbal signatures' for... [12 Jan 2005]
Phishing 'mules' lured in with phoney job ads
News Alex Shipp, senior antivirus technologist at MessageLabs, said: "The fastest way for phishers to transfer money is between accounts in the same bank and the easiest way for them to do this is to recruit unsuspecting dupes to act for them... [23 Nov 2004]
Brightmail is no phisher-man's friend
News Anti-spam giant Brightmail has joined forces with US ISP Earthlink to combat the growing menace of 'phishing' scams. Brightmail will share data from its probe network - which processes billions of fraudulent emails per month - with... [20 Apr 2004]
Online outfits responsible for protecting consumer ID, say consumers
News But most of them will still provide the information that a phisher needs offline on demand. The majority of people in the UK think that the protection of their online identities is down to the companies running the... [20 Apr 2004]
Phishing line hooks more and more victims
News The financial services sector continues top be the most frequently targeted industry sector, and eBay remains the phisher's favourite individual target. Phishing attacks have increased in quantity and quality over the... [23 Mar 2004]
