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Facebook crushes spam apps as five more attack
News According to Ferguson's post: "The new rogue apps take the same format as previously but use different application icons, have slightly more credible notifications to your friends and also now feature bogus notifications... [21 Aug 2009]
Rogue Facebook apps start stealing log-ins, spamming
News He installed that app and immediately his friends were spammed with a bogus notification "Profile_name has sent you a message", with the hyperlink to the phishing site. That first notification included... [20 Aug 2009]
SSAC Advisory on Registrar Impersonation Phishing Attacks
White Paper The correspondence, however, is bogus. 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... [01 Jul 2009]
Anti-Phishing in Offense and Defense
White Paper This paper, instead of preventing human users from "Biting the Bait", it proposed a new approach to protect against phishing attacks with "Bogus Bites". It developed BogusBiter, a unique client-side... [30 Jun 2009]
Minimizing SSO Effort in Verifying SSL Anti-Phishing Indicators
White Paper Subject to phishing and pharming attacks, the sensitive data may be disclosed to an adversary when the user is allured to visit a bogus server. There has been much research in... [30 Jun 2009]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Phishing in particular, where members of the public are tricked into providing bank details or passwords by bogus emails, remains the method of choice for e-criminals. Last December, analyst firm Gartner... [15 Apr 2008]
Phishers going after platinum
News While high-income users tended to click on bogus links less than others, their losses were greater when they were duped, the study noted. People with high incomes attract more phishing emails and lose... [10 Nov 2006]
Leader: The beginning of the end for 419 scams?
Leader Closer to home, Scotland Yard has launched a campaign to make people aware of email scams involving money transfers cheque overpayments, foreign lottery draws, phishing websites and premium-rate... [14 Oct 2005]
CIO Forum: Bank CIOs on the crime frontline
News You can't stop somebody taking what you do and replicating it on a bogus website," he said. And where phishing is concerned Lenson is similarly pragmatic. CIOs within the financial services sector have... [27 Sep 2005]
Phishers turn to fax scams
News Phishers have added a new lure to their tackle boxes: emails that ask people to fax sensitive information to bogus security investigators. Email-based phishing attempts may be getting less effective,... [12 Aug 2005]
Phishers spawn more keylogger attacks
News People can infect their machines with keylogger programs in numerous ways, including opening bogus email attachments, downloading programs online or simply visiting a fraudulent website. In recent months, the researchers... [05 May 2005]
Microsoft sues 117 phishing websites
News These messages attempt to lure people to bogus websites, where the victims are asked to divulge sensitive personal information. Microsoft has filed 117 lawsuits against people who it claims created... [01 Apr 2005]
Ecommerce players put muscle into security
News He noted that consumers usually would not make the effort because they do not have any "skin in the game", since merchants and banks are typically the ones to absorb the losses if a transaction is bogus. [22 Feb 2005]
eBay hosts sale of spam tools and addresses
News And there are many others just like it, some issuing bogus claims that the lists are legitimate and 'all opt-in'. eBay has been talking this week of its efforts to crack down on email phishing and last... [20 Jan 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Fighting back against dodgy emails
Comment If the email seems altogether unexpected, as is the case with bogus invoices, the safe answer is generally to delete it without further investigation. The phishing schemes rely on our tendency to believe... [24 Aug 2004]
