phishing attack
RSS phishing attackRevealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News In the early days a lot of the scareware was a smokescreen for a lot of phishing information - spyware that would look for your financial details - today they're really just designed to get that £15, £20, £30 out of you. [19 Oct 2009]
Online banking fraud rockets as fraudsters get smarter
News Banking industry body Financial Fraud Action UK warned that online fraud is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with fraudsters targeting customers using malware and phishing scams. The number of... [07 Oct 2009]
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... [06 Oct 2009]
Wing Lung Leads Local Banks With State-of-the-Art Authentication for e-Banking Customers
White Paper Indeed, online banking was threatened worldwide with more than 23,610 phishing reports registered in February 2007, according to the Phishing Attack Trends Report-February 2007 from the... [19 Sep 2009]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News Meanwhile, the "chat-in-the-middle" phishing attack, as RSA has dubbed it, is being hosted on a fast flux network that criminals pay to use that hosts malicious websites and other tools for online scams. [18 Sep 2009]
Facebook crushes spam apps as five more attack
News The notifications contained links to a phishing site where users were prompted to provide their Facebook log-in credentials and then prompted to install one of the rogue apps, according to Ferguson. Facebook on Thursday... [21 Aug 2009]
How Not to Look Like a Phish: Tips to Help Your Organization Minimize False Positives
White Paper Businesses absorb more than 90 percent of phishing attack costs as consumers lose faith in Internet-based communication. Phishing is the criminal act of posing as a legitimate business... [15 Aug 2009]
Online Detection and Prevention of Phishing Attacks
White Paper Phishing is a new type of network attack where the attacker creates a replica of an existing Web page to fool users into submitting personal, financial, or password data to what they think is their... [31 Jul 2009]
Web security warnings being ignored - even by the most tech-savvy
News A domain mismatch, where the URL displayed does not match the URL of the destination site, indicates the user may be the victim of a phishing attack. To spoof a phishing site, the... [28 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News Schroder also said he gets a fair share of cases involving phishing attempts and email extortion cases. Looking ahead five years, "I'm thinking the attack is going to be on cloud computing centres," said... [13 Jul 2009]
Phishing: A Primer on What Phishing Is and How It Works
White Paper A phishing attack is most often initiated with a special type of spam (unsolicited email) containing a link to a misleading domain name, which appears to be a legitimate site. Phishing... [12 Jul 2009]
Rock Phishing: The Threat and Recommended Countermeasures
White Paper It also review the actions that businesses can take to prevent and defeat an attack by the Rock Phish Gang including an analysis of how MarkMonitor is uniquely positioned to prevent and defend against rock... [01 Jul 2009]
SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
White Paper This paper describes a form of phishing attack that targets domain name registrants. The attacker impersonates a domain name registrar and sends an expected or anticipated correspondence to a registrar's... [01 Jul 2009]
Top IT Security Threats: How to Protect Your Users From Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
White Paper The presenter of this webcast explores the top IT security threats that the users (and therefore, the data) face, including both established and new methodologies in targeted phishing, malware, and man-in-the-middle... [01 Jul 2009]
A Framework for Detection and Measurement of Phishing Attacks
White Paper Phishing is form of identity theft that combines social engineering techniques and sophisticated attack vectors to harvest financial information from unsuspecting consumers. It finds that it is often... [30 Jun 2009]
