phone phishing
RSS phone phishingOnline 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]
Scammers pose as banks in live chat hack
News The live chat window asks phishing victims for name, phone number and email address (photo credit: RSA) Online scammers have created a phishing site masquerading as a US-based bank that... [18 Sep 2009]
Can Phishing Be Foiled?
White Paper The desired response typically involves logging in to a Web site or calling a phone number to provide personal information. Phish e-mails are constructed by con artists to look like legitimate communications, often from... [30 Jun 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News Bowron said: "The NFRC will as never before ensure that reports of computer fraud are recorded, whether it is somebody who has lost £5 in an online auction house or had their bank account emptied in a phishing attack. [25 Mar 2009]
Online bank fraud doubles to £52.5m
News Phishing attacks rose by 71 per cent in the same period, while malware attacks designed to steal banking details have also grown. Whilst most people are aware notionally of phishing, there do seem to be... [20 Mar 2009]
Photos: iPhone 3.0 under the spotlight
Photo Other apps include Parental Controls, note syncing, shake to shuffle, wi-fi auto log-in, stereo Bluetooth, meeting invites, anti-phishing technology and auto-fill Safari and YouTube account log-in. It's been a long wait... [18 Mar 2009]
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... [06 Jun 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... [23 Apr 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. A little while ago a friend of mine got a mobile phone... [13 Mar 2008]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
News Phishing is still a major issue. There are markets such as India where the amount of phishing attacks has grown by 96 per cent year-on-year. You've recommended that Icann, the internet domain name body,... [01 Jun 2007]
Looks are good enough security for most web shoppers
News We need to provide a more obvious signal to them that they are dealing with a the true website [rather than a phishing site]. Davies recommended Extended Valuation SSL (EVSSL) to online retailers, which among other... [22 Mar 2007]
Spam King gets a MySpace suit
News According to MySpace, Richter gained access to MySpace user accounts via phishing schemes, or took control of accounts that had already been phished, and then used the service's bulletin feature, which sends messages to... [23 Jan 2007]
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... [04 Jan 2007]
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader As the news broke you could almost hear the criminals, somewhere in Eastern Europe, counting to 10, waiting to launch a phishing scam exploiting this news. Because while the basic principle of phishing... [14 Nov 2006]
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... [06 Nov 2006]
