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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 who were contacted had end... [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 by industry association the... [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 flaws in the Mozilla Firefox... [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 security... [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 consumers from the dangers of... [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 two-way authentication... [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 by... [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 Earthlink for... [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 websites that they use. [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 past two months, according to... [23 Mar 2004]
AOL scammer hooked by police
News One 'phisher' convicted of scamming AOL customers out of their credit card details has landed more than she bargained for - a spell in jail. The phisher, Helen Carr, was originally an email marketer who earned her income by sending out legal bulk... [22 Jan 2004]
