phishing attacks
RSS phishing attacksWill Facebook Get You Hired or Fired?
White Paper Phishing is a common method cyber criminals use to lure individuals into giving up their personal information. Spear phishing is where the criminals target a specific group of users, for example all... [13 Nov 2009]
Building a Better Spam Trap: Choosing the Best Defense for Tomorrow's Emerging Email Threats
White Paper SonicWALL Anti-Spam/Email Security solutions apply an integrated multi-layered approach to protect organizations from inbound spam, phishing and email-borne malware, as well as from outbound data leaks and botnet... [13 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper Other areas saw significant growth as well, from phishing attacks to crimeware, from vulnerabilities disclosed to zero-day exploits; 2007 was a big year for threats. As 2007 comes to a close, it's a good... [12 Nov 2009]
Cybersecurity Review: Background, Threatscape, Best-Practices and Resources
White Paper To get an idea of the scale of the threat of cybercrime, it takes a look at the overall use of the Internet, theft or exposure of personal data through data breaches and the amount of money lost to a cybercrime called... [12 Nov 2009]
What Hackers Know That You Don't: Web 2.0 Weaknesses and Opportunities
White Paper While most enterprise users focus on the utility of these applications - how they can enhance their lives and work - profit-driven hackers are finding innovative ways to exploit these new technologies to spread their spyware, viruses,... [12 Nov 2009]
The Web Isn't Fun Anymore: How Websense Technology Protects Against Internet-Based Threats
White Paper Over the past several years, the Internet has become an increasingly dangerous place to work and to play, with viruses, Trojan downloaders, phishing, pharming, and malicious Web sites designed to take advantage of... [12 Nov 2009]
IronPort Email Authentication
White Paper The problems of spam, viruses, phishing and most email denial-of-service attacks can all be traced back to a single common cause - lack of authentication in the email protocol SMTP. This lack of... [12 Nov 2009]
SWAP: Mitigating XSS Attacks Using a Reverse Proxy
White Paper Using cross-site scripting techniques, miscreants can hijack Web sessions, and craft credible phishing sites. Previous work towards protecting against cross-site scripting attacks suffers from various... [11 Nov 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]
The Fraudster Economy Model: The Dynamics of Operating a Business in the Underground
White Paper And while the complexity and sophistication of phishing attacks grows, even more alarming are their numbers. Phishing first gained traction in 1996 with hackers trying to steal America... [06 Oct 2009]
Maximising Site Visitor Trust Using Extended Validation SSL
White Paper The certificates can facilitate online commerce in all its forms by increasing visitor confidence in legitimate sites and greatly reducing the effectiveness of phishing attacks. The new certificates are... [06 Oct 2009]
Comodo Authentication Solutions Overview
White Paper Online threats have grown beyond simple phishing schemes to significant, organized attacks posed by spyware, credential-stealing Trojans, browser hijacking, keystroke logging and remote administration... [06 Oct 2009]
Best Practices for Protecting Against Phishing: Managing an Effective Command Center in the Fight Against Online Fraud
White Paper While it is paramount for financial institutions to stay ahead of these evolving threats so as to not be blindsided, phishing remains today's predominant technique for extorting consumers of their personal information... [06 Oct 2009]
Web 2.0 Browser Exploits: What Hackers Know That You Don't
White Paper These backdoors create a daunting list of new challenges such as Botnets/ Phishing Attacks, P2P etc. Gone are the days when a simple URL Filtering solution took care of all the issues that arise from a... [02 Oct 2009]
Sub-Prime PKI: Attacking Extended Validation SSL
White Paper EV SSL certificates were created to combat phishing and other web based spoofing attacks which succeed in spite of the DV SSL model for web site identification. One of the attributes that the paper... [02 Oct 2009]
