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Phishing, malware and online fraud is booming
News The UK Threat Assessment of Serious Organised Crime pinpoints a surge in attempts to hijack bank accounts using email phishing and key logging malware.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit. [06 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: An everyday tale of e-crime
Comment For example, of the possibly apocryphal case of a company being targeted by phishing scammers who were trying to trick their way into the network. How can a fraudster feel threatened if there is no one you can report his crime to? [13 Mar 2008]
Security 2007: Data theft still the one to watch
News A MessageLabs advisory warned: "2007 will see VoIP become a prime target for phishing attacks whereby spoof phone calls are made to victims to extract their credit card details or steal their identity using third party software. [04 Jan 2007]
Leader: How is ecommerce still taking a kicking?
Leader Of course there are related issues such as spyware and phishing where customers who are predisposed to entering their credit card numbers online could face increased risk but this is a case of users needing more education, not a case of there... [06 Nov 2006]
Data theft scandal - what we can learn from India
Comment The shady middlemen selling the data could never explain exactly how it had come into their hands other than through 'social engineering', or using call centre agents to call UK mobile phone users and then solicit more personal information than... [06 Oct 2006]
Chip and PIN shifts fraud to online shops and banks
News And half of 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK do not know what phishing is. Card not present fraud - made up of internet, phone and mail-order crime - rose by 29 per cent in the six months to June, Apacs said. [08 Nov 2005]
'Anti-phishing' verbal signatures get thumbs up
News I complained to the Co-Op Bank, pointing out the phishing risk and the need to educate customers not to reveal their security information to cold callers, but the Co-op Bank could see nothing wrong with their phone call. [12 Jan 2005]
Phone-charge Net fraud on the rise in UK
News The NHTCU has admitted that it is not giving the problem its full attention yet because it is concentrating its efforts on dealing with phishing crime. ICSTIS has been forced to call in the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) after being hit with a... [24 Jun 2004]
Leader: Who do you think you are?
Leader So it was that by the autumn one of the biggest stories, even in mainstream press, became 'phishing' - typically involving badly crafted spam emails from criminals impersonating well-known banks, sent with the intent of harvesting personal details... [04 Dec 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: SMS spam, go phish and Windows Media Center
Comment The Barclays experience was a classic example of a scamming technique known as 'phishing'. Report any incidents to the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (0870 241 0549) Spam may be an irritation when delivered to a PC via the internet but it is even more... [29 Sep 2003]
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