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RSS symantec phishingSymantec Internet Security Threat Report Volume XIII
White Paper It also assesses trends in phishing and spam activity. The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report provides a six-month update of worldwide Internet threat activity. Understanding the threat trends potential impact provides customers with needed... [09 Jul 2008]
Protect Your Organization and Customers From a Wide Variety of Online Attacks Using Symantec Online Fraud Protection
White Paper It helps protect against the threats of identity theft, phishing, pharming, and other varieties of online fraud to preserve the organization's brand, improve customer loyalty, minimize losses, and avoid liability. [08 Jul 2008]
Symantec Threat Report Documents Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
White Paper It also assesses trends in phishing and spam activity. The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report provides a six-month update of Internet threat activity. It includes analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and... [30 May 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment The cyber crime department's main priority is tackling child pornography but it also combats online fraud, such as phishing, and property rights investigations. They can be used for a wide variety of activities and also up near the top will be... [15 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an increase of 167 per cent from the first half of 2007. The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards social-networking... [09 Apr 2008]
Symantec Security Response: Top Five Instant Messaging Security Risks for 2006
White Paper As one of the most successful and widely deployed applications on the Internet, IM has increasingly become the target for attackers to propagate IM-borne viruses, worms, Spam over IM (SPIM), malware, and phishing attacks. [29 Feb 2008]
Tuning Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam on UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processor-Powered Servers
White Paper Fraudulent email messages find their ways into inboxes and tempt unsuspecting users into divulging personal information at phishing sites. Electronic mail is a business-critical function in virtually every enterprise, and it is also one that is... [29 Feb 2008]
The Symantec Mail Security 8160 Appliance: A Technical White Paper on Antispam Defenses at the TCP/IP Level
White Paper Having defended users' PCs against email-borne viruses, managers now have to protect user mailboxes from being swamped under a barrage of, at best unwanted, and often offensive (pornographic) or fraudulent (phishing), email messages. [08 Jan 2008]
Multi-tier Email Security: The need for defense-in-depth
White Paper Let this Symantec white paper serve as your guide in developing a comprehensive, multi-tiered defense against spam, viruses, phishing e-mails, and other inappropriate or unauthorized e-mail from external and internal sources alike. [12 Dec 2007]
How to Secure Your Customers' Confidence in Online Banking
White Paper The attendee will learn how to take a proactive approach in preventing phishing and pharming identity theft attacks, as well as protecting against other emerging online threats like malicious crimeware. [23 May 2007]
Nearly a third of cyber attacks spawned in USA
News Phishing largely occurs during the weekday, the report noted. Many phishing attacks begin with an email that appears to be from a legitimate source but in fact contains a malicious attachment or includes a link to a malicious website. [20 Mar 2007]
Porn spam going down, says Symantec
News Of all junk messages, eight per cent is fraudulent or part of a scam such as phishing, it said. There's still plenty of spam going around but 'adult' spam has been on a steady decline and hit an all-time low in February, according to a new Symantec... [07 Mar 2007]
Vista: Security industry ready for retail launch
News In addition, Vista includes parental controls, and IE 7 has a filter to block phishing scams. Microsoft is increasingly encroaching on the terrain of traditional security companies such as McAfee, Symantec and Trend Micro. [18 Jan 2007]
Alert over Adobe Acrobat flaw
News XSS attacks put online accounts at risk of hijack and feed information-thieving phishing scams by allowing miscreants to use seemingly trusted links to point to fraudulent websites. An error in the web browser plug-in of Adobe Systems' tool lets... [04 Jan 2007]
Phishing Attacks in and Around April Through September 2006
White Paper The aim is to perform the kind of careful analysis done in the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, but with a focus on phishing. This paper describes phishing trends from April 2006 through September 2006 inclusive. [15 Dec 2006]
