phone phishing
RSS phone phishingPhishing, 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]
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... [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 bill. [13 Mar 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment And the attack rated most threatening by the banks - phishing - happens without the banks' involvement, as thieves exploit customers directly. Delivered to users of high-value commercial accounts via targeted phishing mail, watches victims... [24 Dec 2007]
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, introduce a new dot-bank top level domain and... [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 things causes the address bar to... [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 all of a user's 'friends... [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 using third party software. [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 hasn't changed the tactics are evolving to... [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 education, not a case of there... [06 Nov 2006]
Hook, Line, and Sinker: Phishing Attacks Going "Professional"
White Paper This paper from Trend Micro details the evolution of phishing scams, from John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper's phone phreaking of the 1970s to the sophisticated spoofed e-mails and cloned Web sites favored by phishers today. [18 Oct 2006]
Hook, Line and Sinker: Phishing Attacks Going "Professional"
White Paper This paper from Trend Micro details the evolution of phishing scams, from John "Cap'n Crunch" Draper's phone phreaking of the 1970s to the sophisticated spoofed e-mails and cloned Web sites favoured by phishers today. [18 Oct 2006]
ID theft 'threatens almost all UK homes'
News Stolen identities, whether gained through stealing from bins or through phishing can be used to apply for bank accounts, credit cards and mobile phone contracts as well as identification documents such as passports. [16 Oct 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]
ID theft: Which banks do best?
News Another way could be to promote online account monitoring and advanced protection against phishing scams that seek to trick people into giving up account details, the research company said. Banks could let customers set up email or mobile phone... [26 Sep 2006]
