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White Paper This is understandable, considering the scams a small minority of eBay users have propagated; look up "Buying offenses" in eBay's Help for an exhaustive list (and lots of ideas, too).... [10 Oct 2007]
Yahoo! cracks down on eBay phishers
News Typically, the phishing scams masquerade as emails from trusted financial sources and direct a recipient to a website where they're asked to enter their username and password. is upgrading its Mail system with DomainKeys... [04 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 22.06.07
Round-Up Barrett added: "The good news is that just two per cent of people in the UK have fallen for these scams. Phishing involves the sending of fraudulent emails which ape the branding of well known companies - most commonly... [22 Jun 2007]
Is Skype secure enough for businesses?
Comment While Skype's strong encryption prevents interception and eavesdropping, the software is still vulnerable to the vishing (phishing scams over VoIP) and social engineering threats that email and telephony also suffer from. [02 Apr 2007]
PayPal users to get pass-code device
News The key fob is meant as another weapon in the battle against data-thieving phishing scams. These prevalent scams typically use fraudulent websites made to look like legitimate sites and spam email to... [12 Jan 2007]
UK suffering fraud boom-time
News Typical phishing scams rely on a spoofed website, made to look like the site of a bank or popular e-tailer's site, such as Amazon or eBay, where the unsuspecting user submits personal information such as... [07 Nov 2006]
Can IE 7 kill off phishing?
News Typically phishing scams rely on a spoofed website made to look like the site of a leading bank or popular e-tailers such as Amazon or eBay. Phishing could soon be a thing of the past and the credit may... [27 Oct 2006]
MySpace targeted by cyber criminals
News And as Amazon and eBay users have been targeted, most notably by phishing scams, so Sunner says it is now the turn of MySpace. Whether it's Amazon or eBay - or now MySpace - it will make... [27 Jul 2006]
Online casino punters targeted by malware scams
News Kimmo Kasslin, a researcher at F-Secure Labs, said it is inevitable criminals will start to target casinos as their membership numbers reach the same kind of critical mass that first flagged the likes of eBay and PayPal... [17 May 2006]
Why does phishing work?
News It may seem incredible to those who know to be wary of any solicitation for personal details over email, but consumers are still falling for phishing scams in their droves. Now three academics from US universities... [03 Apr 2006]
Opinion: What a year it's been for e-crime
Comment The extent of the damage e-criminals are causing was revealed to me at a recent Westminster briefing, where I heard reported figures for one high street bank's losses to phishing scams in the last 12 months. [15 Mar 2006]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in security
News And such scams, travelling in far smaller numbers are far harder to detect. Leading the charge are far more finely tuned phishing scams and the snowballing menace of spyware. Users may by now be wary of... [19 Dec 2005]
First Katrina web scammer up in court
News Internet security experts have warned of numerous online scams designed to exploit charitable giving in the aftermath of the catastrophe. PayPal, the online payment subsidiary of eBay, was quick to... [04 Oct 2005]
Symantec secures WholeSecurity
News Symantec has agreed to acquire privately held WholeSecurity, which makes products to fight phishing scams and detect malicious code attacks. Its customers include Deutsche Bank, eBay and Visa, according... [23 Sep 2005]
Leader: Filter out the fraud
Leader Since phishing scams began, banks, eBay, PayPal, ISPs and vendors have banged on about user education as the best defence against these attacks. With the growing number of email scams... [07 Sep 2005]
