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State of Internet Security Report: Protecting Business Email

whitepaper The report finds that close to 80% of U.S.businesses surveyed experienced a spam attack last year while half also experienced spyware, virus and phishing attacks. Business dependence on email is greater than ever before and the volume of threats...

Tags: anti-virus

[14 May 2008]

Symantec Threat Report Documents Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks

whitepaper It also assesses trends in phishing and spam activity. The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report provides a six-month update of Internet threat activity. It includes analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and...

Tags: network security

[11 May 2008]

PorKI: Making User PKI Safe on Machines of Heterogeneous Trustworthiness

whitepaper As evidenced by the proliferation of phishing attacks and keystroke loggers, everyone knows that human beings are not well-equipped to make trust decisions about when to use their passwords or other personal credentials.

Tags: pki

[02 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Implementing Exchange Hosted Filtering (Level 200)

whitepaper Exchange Hosted Filtering incorporates multiple filters to actively help protect businesses' inbound and outbound e-mail from spam, viruses, phishing scams, and e-mail policy violations. Exchange Hosted Filtering is one of the premium offerings...

Tags: network security

[01 May 2008]

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat

News Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration attempts and application flaw exploits, and more specific threats such as phishing attacks against users, in the form of forged emails purporting...

Tags: phishing, spam, facebook

[23 Apr 2008]

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent

News Phishing email attacks on the UK have gone up by 200 per cent this year, the UK payments association Apacs has warned. Online banking fraud losses decreased a third from £33.5m in 2006 to £22.6m in 2007 but phishing incidents have climbed from 2...

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

[16 Apr 2008]

FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat

Comment The cyber crime department's main priority is tackling child pornography but it also combats online fraud, such as phishing, and property rights investigations. They can be used for a wide variety of activities and also up near the top will be...

Tags: security, malware, cyber crime

[15 Apr 2008]

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 estimated losses from US phishing attacks at...

Tags: online banking, fraud, e-crime

[15 Apr 2008]

PayPal wages war on phishing

News PayPal is stepping up its battle against phishing with new technology and by collaborating with others in the industry. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security...

Tags: certification, education, isps, paypal

[11 Apr 2008]

Phishing is a real threat to financial firms

whitepaper Phishing is an ever-growing form of Internet-based fraud. The costs of phishing to financial institutions — in terms of actual dollars and damage to brands — are too significant to ignore. For the financial services industry, the Internet has...

Tags: , institutions, risks, damage

[11 Apr 2008]

Unified Threat Management Appliances and Identity-Based Security: The Next Level in Network Security

whitepaper Outsider threats such as spyware, phishing, and pharming are targeting individual users to carry out attacks from within the enterprise. Enterprises, regardless of size, are increasingly realizing that their computer systems are vulnerable to as...

Tags: network security

[11 Apr 2008]

No Phishing: Protecting Employees from E-mail Fraud

whitepaper SPAM has evolved beyond just annoying junk e-mail advertisements to being a primary vehicle for phishing scams. These types of messages pose a tremendous e-mail security threat that can easily result in identity theft and/or compromise of corporate...

Tags: email, mail, corporate networks, mail security

[10 Apr 2008]

Protect Your Business From Phishing Attacks

whitepaper Phishing, a dangerous new threat that blends spam, social engineering and identity theft techniques, has grown by more than 180 percent this year. Phishing initially targeted unsuspecting consumers, but recent trends indicate that phishing scams...

Tags: spam and e-mail marketing, threat, phishing, identity

[10 Apr 2008]

TrustedSource: The Next-Generation Reputation System

whitepaper Defending against e-mail borne threats (phishing, viruses, spam, etc.is becoming more challenging every day. It is not possible to continue to scale signature or content-based approaches against the increasing volume and variety of e-mail attack...

Tags: anti-hacking, mail, continue, downtime

[10 Apr 2008]

Security threats revealed: Beware the metasploit

News The key security threats facing businesses range from mutations of established methods - such as malware or phishing - to less well-known ones, such as metasploit releases and 'pass the hash' attacks.

Tags: browser, rsa, phishing, botnet

[09 Apr 2008]

Phishers attack social networking generation

News The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards social-networking sites". The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167 per cent from the first half...

Tags: social networking, phishers

[09 Apr 2008]

UK businesses: No one cares about cyber attacks!

News Cyber crime targeting businesses is on the rise - while there were no reports of phishing emails in a 2004 BCC survey, the 2008 report found 31 per cent had fallen foul of phishing and 23 per cent had machines infected by spyware.

Tags: e-crime, cyber crime

[09 Apr 2008]

How to Boost Consumer Confidence in Your e-Commerce Web Site

whitepaper However, recent developments in authentication technology have led to a new kind of SSL certificate that facilitates online commerce by increasing visitor confidence in legitimate sites and greatly reducing the effectiveness of phishing attacks.

Tags: web browsers

[09 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment Criminals can call on directed phishing attacks using the simple expedients of ransacking rubbish bags and using Google to look for useful information on social networking sites and generally sprayed across the internet.

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Phishing, phaxing, vishing and other identity threats: The evolution of online fraud

whitepaper This paper describes the online fraud of phishing, looks at other methods it has spawned, and gives advice on how organizations can prevent the theft of their identity. Fraudsters and scammers are finding increasingly devious ways of stealing...

Tags: telecom security, profile, prevent, theft

[08 Apr 2008]

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