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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]
Spoofing flaw unearthed in IE 7
News IE 7, released last week, allows a website to display a pop-up that can contain a spoofed web address, security monitoring company Secunia said on Wednesday. Security experts have found a weakness in Internet Explorer 7... [26 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 favored by... [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... [18 Oct 2006]
Why does phishing work?
News Presented with a carefully spoofed Bank Of the West email which directed recipients to the phishing website www.bankofthevvest.com (with a double 'v' instead of 'w'), complete with a padlock in the content,... [03 Apr 2006]
Will MasterCard breach breed new wave of phishing?
News BitDefender predicts email users may be directed to spoofed pages where viruses and Trojans could easily be downloaded. Such scams are nothing new but on the back of such a high profile breach it's... [21 Jun 2005]
Firefox flaw found
News To fall victim to such a scam, a Firefox user would have to click on a link in an email that pointed to a spoofed website and then download malware from the site, which would appear to be downloaded from a legitimate site. [06 Jan 2005]
eBay: You've got (private) mail
News eBay has moved to squelch spoofed email bearing its name by introducing a private mail service. That way, members can be sure to avoid spam in disguise or phishing scams designed to lure people to a fake... [05 Jan 2005]
Phishing scams: They're the new viruses
News Phishing scams typically include links to a spoofed website or HTML code designed to mirror the look of a well-known bank. According to mail filtering firm MessageLabs, one recent phishing scam, which... [11 Aug 2004]
Phishing soars as shoppers flock to the web
News According to VeriSign, 93 per cent of phishing emails that it studied were sent from forged or spoofed email addresses, which at first glance may appear to be genuine. Phishing scams typically involve... [28 Jul 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Phishing
Cheat Sheet Typically these scams involve a spoofed email - often claiming to be from a bank or a payment services company such as PayPal. Over the years there have been instances of people submitting details to... [25 Jun 2004]
Sender Policy Framework in MDaemon 7.1+
White Paper This paper explains about Sender Policy Framework (SPF), which is an open standard security protocol designed to detect spoofed email addresses. It is one of the main tactics used to spread messages containing spam,... [05 Jun 2004]
Barclays is latest target of spoofed website fraud
News Following hot on the heels of the high-profile PayPal and Citibank scams, an email began spreading at the end of last week passing itself off as Barclays customer care asking people to click on a link to what was one of... [15 Sep 2003]
New Citibank email scam spreads
News A new spoofed Citibank spam email is doing the rounds in an attempt to part unwitting victims from their credit card details, PIN number and email account details. As ever, there is a twist, and anyone foolish enough to... [01 Sep 2003]
