Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Phishing is hooking more victims as the e-mail fraud attacks become more sophisticated and prevalent.
According to market researchers at Gartner, the number of phishing e-mail recipients has grown 28 percent in 2005. Because fraudulent e-mails negatively impact consumer confidence, the research firm's recent study predicts phishing and other security breaches ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Yahoo is playing host to thousands of phishing sites and doesn't have sufficiently well-trained staff to address the problem of online fraud, according to a leading anti-spam and security organisation on Tuesday.Richard Cox, chief information officer of Spamhaus, told an audience of politicians, security experts and law enforcement officials that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A new website has been built to educate British online consumers about the dangers of phishing scams.
The Phishing IQ Test has been set up with faux emails from banks and e-commerce vendors, and users are invited to judge whether they are legitimate or not.
A results page reveals the correct answers ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
So says the Radicati Group, which Wednesday released preliminary results of a survey showing that it's bad behavior on the part of users -- us, in other words -- driving the spam and virus threat.
And you thought it was spammers and hackers.
"Frankly, it surprised us that users ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Two-thirds of IT managers named spyware as the number one threat to their networks' security in 2005, a survey released Monday said. The poll, conducted by security firm WatchGuard on the Seattle-based company's Web site in December, revealed that 66 percent of the managers and administrators surveyed thought that spyware ...
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