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Join The Fight Against Phishing
2011-12-26 09:00:00 The Internet is a wonderful thing. When I was a kid my dad use to tell me that anything I wanted to know can be found in a book. While this still holds true, I find that anything I want to know can be found quicker on the Internet.Even though the Internet is a great resource for improving one's knowledge about pretty much everything, it can also be a dangerous place for those that are not very computer savvy. Hell, even really savvy computer people can sometimes fall victim to cyber crime. One of the biggest, and easiest methods of cyber crime is Phishing.For those of you living under a rock, according to Wikipedia:Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from popular social web sites, auction sites, online payment processors or IT administrators are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting public. Phishing is typi...
By: Bauer-Power
Protect From Holiday Phishing Shipping Scams
2011-12-25 06:53:00 A common holiday shipping phishing scam is a phony notice from UPS, saying you have a package and need to fill out an attached form to get it delivered. The form may ask for personal or financial details that will go straight into the hands of the cyberscammer. Often the email asks to download a ...
ISiM Special Lecture(17):Individual Differences in Phishing Susceptibility
2011-11-24 13:22:00 International School of Information Management University of Mysore ISiM Special Lecture (17) "Individual Differences in Phishing Susceptibility: An Integrated Information Processing Model" by Dr. Arun Vishwanath, Ph.D., MBA Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor Department of
Holiday Headaches Coming for Consumers
2011-11-21 15:00:00 Gearing up for the holidays, consumers are getting ready to pull a Wilma Flintstone and, ?Charge it!? Many don?t realize that you cannot protect your credit card number. Every time you use a credit card, you increase the chances of that card number being used fraudulently. When handing your card to a clerk or cashier, pay ...
Comment Phishing: why bloggers should feel better about Internet trolls
2011-10-14 16:32:00 There’s a group of us Chicago Now bloggers who participate in an online forum where we talk to each other about all things blogging. A lot of the time it’s technical issues, or sometimes how our softball team did (really well until NPR trounced them in the finals) or our latest get-together. (A City Mom... Read more »
Indian Mobile Companies to share Phishing liability of Rs 3250 crores per a
2011-09-23 05:26:00 Recently two Phishing Cases have been reported involving a combination of a Bank and a Mobile Service Provider. In both cases the combination is State Bank of India and Vodafone. Ever since RBI introduced the OTP system as a second factor authorization for some net based transactions, many Banks have jumped ...
15.5 Percent Phishing Emails Originates From India: IBM
2011-05-31 06:24:00 IBM recently released the ‘X-Force Trend and Risk Report’ of 2010, which speaks of the threats that the IT world faced. Here IT world doesn’t necessarily mean privately held companies. According to the report, both public and private companies went through a time when online security threats were at high. The findings of the report were set up on the basis of insight that came from after a thorough research on public vulnerability disclosures, along with observing and analyzing over 150,000 security events in every second during each single day in 2010. The report highlights the fact that in India, phishing email origination was highest in 2010 at 15.5 percent. Russia was next in the line with 10.4 percent phishing email origination. The trend of sending spam emails has surged in India from the spring of 2009 and it continued till autumn in 2010. The report also lists other countries from where most spam emails are sent. These countries are, United States, Vietnam and Brazil....
By: WATblog
The 12 Scams of Christmas: #4 - Phony Order Confirmation / Phishing Fraud
2010-12-14 23:35:00 Continuing with Professor Fraud's Twelve Scams of Christmas, here is ... Scam #4: Phony Order Confirmation / Phishing Fraud Just checking my emails. Oh look, an email from a retailer informing me that there's a problem with the Christmas presents I ordered. That's funny ... the email isn't addressed to me, but to "Dear Customer"... there are some misspellings ... and poor grammar. And you know, I don't even remember ordering from this store. It's undoubtedly an example of a growing phishing scam known as the "Phony Order Confirmation Fraud." What the fraudsters would like you to do is click on the link in the email, which will take you to a site where you'll be asked to supply them with...
Phishing Forces RBI To Seek CBI Help
2010-07-13 14:21:00 You would probably have heard the word phishing in relation to cyber crime. It has been actively used by cyber criminals trying to dupe people of their money. This menace has been increasing with more people getting hooked on to the internet but not being fully aware of phishing. A recent news about phishing is about a government employee in Coimbatore who received an email from an unknown account posing to be an official at RBI, congratulating her on winning a lottery worth $500,000. She had to send her account details and make a small upfront payment though. She fell for it, losing Rs. 6.5 lakh in the process. Phishing is a term given for creating fraudulent websites and email addresses closely resembling legitimate companies. To give you some numbers – between January 2006 and September 2009, 1,436 cases of fraudulent Internet money transfer cases amounting to Rs 15 crore have been reported. The RBI, in a desperate measure to stop these crimes, has sought the help of th...
By: WATblog
Surprising surge of Phishing on nationwide banks
2010-06-21 02:00:00 In the last couple of months the RSA Anti Fraud Command Center witnessed a dramatic surge of Phishing on nationwide US banks. Ever since the good old days of the initial Phishing attacks in 2003-2004, the share of national banks – those that span across the entire US – has been declining, as the major banks implemented effective remedies against Phishing and the public became more aware of attacks where the fraudster posed as a major national bank. The heat moved to smaller targets: regional banks and small credit unions.
Universal Man-In-The-Middle: Next Generation Phishing Was Already Here
2010-06-17 02:00:00 Over the years, phishing attacks have changed and evolved. Around 2005, it was popular to add a Javascript code to the simple HTML pages that took advantage of a vulnerability in the browser. This allowed the fraudsters to spoof the URL of the phishing attack so it would appear as...
Fraudsters Still Earn a Paycheck from Traditional Methods: From Phishing Ki
2010-06-03 02:00:00 Every fraud operation consists of two main stages. In the first stage, fraudsters use various tools and sources to obtain records of stolen identities, while in the second “cash out” stage, they turn those records into cold hard cash.
Phishing Persists - and Persistence Pays Parasites*
2010-05-18 02:00:00 Phishing persists. I was shocked to see that Cory Doctorow, a really technical author and blogger, was in fact phished recently and wrote about it this Locus article Persistence Pays Parasites
Stop Phishing: Websites and Users Working Together
2010-02-05 12:46:00 PHISHING is a worldwide problem. Unscrupulous cyber-criminals, unsuspecting Internet users and apathetic web-service providers: It’s a volatile mix that will always benefit the crook. Hell, if the user is stupid enough to click on a link in an email message and gladly provide their user account details, they deserve what they get! image courtesy of ...
WARNING ? Google Adwords Phishing Scam
2009-12-01 15:48:00 There is a new scam email doing the rounds at the moment, which asks you to verify your Google Adwords account details. In this case, simplicity is the key, and because it isn?t a bank or PayPal, it is perhaps more tempting to click, in which case you get redirected to google-xc.com. From: Google AdWords [mailto:AdWords@google.com] Sent: ...
By: Seo Blog
"Chat-in-the-Middle" Phishing Attack Attempts to Steal Consumers' Data via
2009-09-16 02:00:00 A new, unique type of phishing attack targeted against online banking customers was recently discovered by the RSA FraudAction Research Lab. RSA has coined this as a "Chat-in-the-Middle" phishing attack and it is first executed through routine means but then presents a more advanced layer of perpetrating online fraud. The phishing attacks may dupe bank customers into entering their usernames and passwords into an ordinary phishing site but the addition of a bogus live chat support window can obtain even more credentials via a live chat session initiated by fraudsters.
Facebook disables 6 rogue phishing apps, but 5 more appear
2009-08-22 15:47:00 Facebook on Thursday said it had disabled six rogue apps that were stealing Facebook users’ log-in credentials and spamming people, and within hours more appeared. Five more of the apps appeared on Thursday, called "Friends," "Friends Gifts," "Matching," "Pok," and "Your Photos," according to an updated blog post by Trend Micro researcher Rik Ferguson. Facebook ...
Geheime computer hack en phishing pagina’s onbekend
2009-07-24 10:43:00 Je onderburen kunnen zien wat jij op je computer doet en meeste internetbezoekers weten niet wanneer ze op phishing pagina’s zitten.
By: SpyBlog
Does (Spam|Phishing) Filtering == Email Censoring?
2009-07-14 15:32:00 I was reading about the Gmail Labs option to display a key icon if the sender's domain is signed using DKIM and the sender is eBay or PayPal. This allows you to quickly verify if the email is legitimate by looking at the icon. Now it apparently takes some work for a domain to be ...
By: ComputerDefense
Phishing fai da te
2009-06-24 00:17:00 In ambito informatico il phishing (”spillaggio (di dati sensibili)”, in italiano) è una attività illegale che sfrutta una tecnica di ingegneria sociale, ed è utilizzata per ottenere l’accesso a informazioni personali o riservate con la finalità del furto di identità mediante l’utilizzo delle comunicazioni elettroniche, soprattutto messaggi di posta elettronica fasulli o messaggi istantanei, ma ...
By: PocaCola blog
Phishing in Troubled Waters
2009-04-12 15:51:00 No matter how carefully we maintain vigilance over the malware that populates cyberspace, the scammers have become ever-more sophisticated, to the point where their bogus pages look almost identical to the legitimate sites they pretend to be. How often do you encounter phishing in your day-to-day ac
Understanding Phishing in Plain English
2009-03-01 15:22:00 The folks over at commoncraft have brought us another of their awesome videos, helping the world understand things. This one teaches us what Phising means, and why it is a dangerous thing to watch out for. EnjoyRead More...
Phishing Attacks Rise Dramatically in 2008
2009-02-20 04:15:00 Robert Siciliano - Identity Theft Expert Stupid people get hooked by phishers. You have to be a complete idiot to get sucked into a scam email that has typos making requests that are geared toward naïve simple minded pea brain fools. Right? So why have phishing attacks risen dramatically in 2008? That?s 66% higher than in ...
New Phishing Kits Hit the Market: Trojan HTML Injections Now for Sale
2009-01-06 01:00:00 The economic lifecycle of the underground fraud community functions very similarly to the world of legitimate business. Online fraudsters have supply chains, third-party outsourcers, vendors, and online forums where people with skills and people with opportunities to commit fraud can find each other. The underground fraud supply chain is becoming more technically and operationally sophisticated, and we’ve coined this “Fraud-as-a-Service&rdquo-; or “FaaS”. FaaS consists of services for advanced hosting, Trojan infection kits and cashout services – all for sale within the fraudster underground.
Is Your Website Accused Of Phishing? I Got Hacked And Resolve It The Hard W
2009-01-05 04:44:00 I have been pretty inactive for a while since my niche is not for xmas, my clickbank sales really took a dive. Anyway, I was enjoying myself watching so many movies and episodes online that I have to say I really enjoyed myself throughout december. The best part of 2009 is that I found a IM coach that is coaching 12 of us to be better in our preselling of products to customers and hopefully, that works out! The worst part of 2009, the really BIG BANG for me happened on January 2nd, 2009. I was about to prepare for a launch of my new adwords campaign and my webhost, Bluehost, dropped me a BOMB! They banned my account because my site is listed as a phishing email site. I was HACKED! Worst part, bluehost couldn’t really advise me on what to do except to say I have to remedy the situation. First time encountering such times and sadly, when you look around online, there is alot of solutions for normal email users but not much solutions for webmasters. It is so damn frustrat...
¡Cuidado! Ofrecen recargas gratis de Vodafone como anzuelo de 'phishing'
2009-01-01 10:04:00 Si eres usuario de Vodafone no puedes dejar de leer esta información porque puede resultar de tu interés. Está circulando un mensaje de correo electrónico que, bajo el slogan ?Recarga tu Vodafone en estas Fiestas y recibe el doble de saldo?, dirige a una página web que no es la oficial y cuyo objetivo es captar los datos de la tarjeta de crédito del usuario.¿Cómo darse cuenta de esta estafa? El mail tiene como remitente a Vodafone España con la dirección info@vodafone.es. El contenido del mensaje es una única imagen y consiste en un texto que ofrece el doble de saldo durante el mes en curso para las recargas realizadas a través de la supuesta página web de Voafone, que en realidad no lo es, detalla la web Canal PDA. Además, para corrobar que se trata de algo ?turbio? se muestra la ilustración de un iPhone 3G con logotipos de Vodafone, cuando en realidad esta operadora nunca ha comercializado el teléfono de Apple en el mercado español.En la imagen también figura la dirección web www....
Five ways to avoid phishing scams
2008-12-10 15:57:00 We've all gotten the emails that seem to be from a financial institution that we may or may not be associated with. While the novelty has worn off and more consumers are well aware of these scams, criminals are getting smarter and savvier by the day and so it's not always easy to spot potential scams. Here are some top tips that we suggest you follow to prevent yourself from getting caught out by a phishing attempt. Escalate any potential e-mails from banks you have accounts with by phone In the hundreds of potential spam emails you get, if you do get an e-mail from an institution that you have an account with, avoid clicking on the links. Especially if the e-mail suggests a problem of need for verification, you're best to call up a banker at the company directly: they will be able to tell you if the inquiry is legitimate, and, if so, can help you resolve the problem. Make sure the phone number you use is the one you know is genuine and a direct connection to the bank – safel...
By: Bull3t's Blog
How to Foil 'Phishing' Scarms
2008-12-03 16:35:00 From Scientific American: Over just a few weeks, I received e-mail messages from several banks warning me that my online banking services were in danger of being deactivated, from eBay telling me that I needed to change my password, from Apple complaining that I had unpaid bills fo
Gone Phishing
2008-11-16 06:44:00 Apple introduced the latest version of Safari one of my favorite browsers. One important feature that was dropped until now is phishing protection, I don’t mean the sport of drowning worms, I mean scams which are used to try to find out your passwords or used for identity theft. I you have installed Apple’s Safari ...
Phishing is bad, BOOOOOO
2008-10-24 03:56:00 One of the blogs I follow and have mentioned here is Common Craft Blog by Lee Lefever. Lee just released a new video on phishing scams? I can always tell when I get a scam email and they ask me to log on and verify information. Most of the time it is from banks and I know I don't have an account there. I got one not to long ago and it was from a bank that I do have an account at. I called them up before I submitted the information. Yes, it was a phishing scam. They informed me to always log on to my account from the web site NOT the email. Here is the video by Common Craft blog that I think you will learn from. As Lee says in his video there is nothing wrong with doing internet banking as long as you go to their site, and not them come to you in a email.
Banks are not the only target for phishing
2008-09-12 19:30:00 It’s not just banks that hackers deploy phishing attacks against; it has been seen that hackers also deploy attacks against other payment processing services such as MoneyGram, Equifax, Western Union, etc as a way of gaining profit through harvesting personal details.
Banks Should be Liable for Phishing
2008-09-12 08:10:00 Phishing is emerging in India as a major concern for the Banking industry. The recent revelation from a security agency that security in 88 Indian Banks have been compromised at one time or the other in recent days places an alarming question on the security of the Indian Banking systems. While Banks are shortchanging their customers ...
Phishing che fa scompisciare
2008-08-27 18:15:00 Bonasera Cliente Se non riceviamo le informazioni entro il 27 agosto 2008, saremo costretti a sospendere il Suo conto per un periodo indefinito, come se fosse stato usato in scopi fraudolenti. La ringraziamo per la Sua cooperazione in questo problema. Per confirmare i dati del Suo conto Online Banking cliccare sul seguente link: https://titolari.cartasi.it/por-tal/server.pt La ringraziamo per la Sua ...
By: PocaCola blog
Report Reveals That Internet Fraud Threatens E-Commerce
2008-08-24 18:54:00 The Center for American Progress just released a report indicating that not enough is being done to protect the public from fraud on the Internet. It’s also warning that the convenience, choices and lower prices enjoyed by Internet users are at risk because of this. They report reveals that high levels of fraud and abuse may ...
Breaking News Alerts Phishing Scam
2008-08-15 06:58:00 Updated August 15:I haven't read about this yet, but in the past week or so, I have gotten some sort of phishing scam coming from CNN Breaking News Alerts and MSNBC Breaking News Alerts.They look very professional and seem like they are coming from CNN and MSNBC themselves. But I never signed up for either, so I figured it must a phishing attempt. I went to the page to change my settings to stop getting the newsletters that I never even signed up for in the first place, and it looked just like the CNN webpage. Good job, guys!A few days later, Google started marking these CNN News Alerts for me as phishing attempts. Now it's marking these hazy MSNBC alerts the same way. It turns out that both the CNN Breaking News Alerts and the MSNBC Breaking News Alerts were indeed phishing scams!Meantime, watch out for CNN News Alerts or MSNBC News Alerts coming to your mailbox when you never signed up for either one. Neither actual site is going to sign you up for breaking news alerts without ...
By: Robert Lindsay
Google, Yahoo!, Beware Account Phishing Scams
2008-06-06 02:56:00 A post on SE Round Table on Google Adwords Phishing Scams is quite timely; more so as I received a similar one for Yahoo! Search Marketing in the morning batch of emails. I don’t know how many people fall for these phishing emails, I guess if they catch one or two out it makes it worth ...
Phishing pe RAC
2008-06-04 23:18:00 Attention RAC Users: Phishing Scheme on RAC site. Last week there were 3 bid requests that were posted and contained a link that was supposed to go to the buyer's site. The link actually brought up a fake RAC login screen. This person used this to try to capture login information for RAC users. If you think you may have been a victim of this phishing scheme, you should immediately change your login information and contact RAC. Remember that you will never be asked for your RAC login information if you are going to a link outside of RAC. If you see anything suspicious please contact us immediately. Aten?ia celor care vor s? ob?in? bani u?or ?i ilegal s-a îndreptat ?i c?tre site-ul Rent A Coder , o platform? de pia?? virtual? pentru vânz?torii de servicii de web ?i cump?r?tori. Mai remarc ?i faptul c? pe site-ul respectiv, România este reprezentat de c?tre un num?r impresionant de programatori web ?i majoritatea presteaz? servicii de nivel înalt. Dac? verifica?i clasame...
By: HENRICH
Del Phishing bancario a la pesca de adsense
2008-06-04 19:12:00 Parece que los responsables del phishing de cuentas bancarias no tienen suficiente con intentar pescar entre los usuarios de entidades financieras y ahora les está dando por probar métodos alternativos como intentar pescar entre los usuarios de las cuentas de adsense. Os dejo un pantallazo de un email que he recibido para cazar a los ...
By: Gurusblog
Inician ataque de Phishing contra iTunes
2008-05-27 18:50:00 Ciberdelincuentes intentan obtener números de tarjetas de crédito y otra información personal de los usuarios de iTunes afirmando que éstos deben actualizar sus informaciones de pago.
Condannato a non pubblicare piu? video su internet
2008-05-27 14:34:00 Andrew Kellett, 23enne inglese, è stato condannato da un giudice a non pubblicare piu’ video su internet, in attesa dell’udienza prevista per il 15 Luglio. Lo "stolto" si divertiva a pubblicare su YouTube, i propri video riguardanti corse automobilistiche illegali, uso di droghe, furti ed altri comportamenti illeciti. Non si può chiamare altro che idiota, semplicemente ...
Careful - They Want Your Adwords Account [Phishing]
2008-05-26 13:54:00 BEWARE!!!! There are emails out there that are phishing for your Google Adwords account information. The email looks something like this: Dear Google AdWords customer! In order to confirm your contact details, please click the link below: http://www.google.com/accounts/-VE/?service=adwords&c=36264-0971868568693100880184510804927-508349693922162&id=04267902- This should take you directly to the Google AdWords Form. Thank you for choosing AdWords. We look forward to providing you with the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Careful - They Want Your Adwords Account [Phishing]", url: "http://ozlady.com/2008/05/26/c-areful-they-want-your-adwords-a-ccount-phishing/" });
International Phishing Gang, nailed with a little teamwork!
2008-05-26 02:46:00 I suppose it’s big news when a phishing gang gets caught. Sadly, few of them ever seem to get nabbed, or prosecuted. Phishing is a crime that is committed across borders with the click of a mouse, or “bot,” which makes investigating and prosecuting this type of crime, slightly challenging. Saying that, the times might be ...
Il Phishing attaca iTunes
2008-05-23 04:12:00 L’impennata di vendite dei prodotti tecnologici in casa Apple come i pc Mac,gli iPhone e iPod non l’hanno risparmiata dall’attacco dei phisher che finora, data la scarsa utenza, hanno lasciato in pace gli utenti di iTunes. Da questo lunedi hanno iniziato a circolare mail-truffa che segnalando all’utente un problema con l’account, li invitano ad effettuare il login cliccando ...
Hugo Chavez è morto? No, è un virus
2008-05-16 11:49:00 Non hanno più idee questi virus writer, o meglio stanno davvero spremendo le loro meningi per trovare trappole infime ove nascondere le loro malignità. Infatti, da Panda Security arriva una news che ha dell’incredibile! Sostengono di avere rilevato un messaggio di posta elettronica in circolazione che comunica la falsa notizia della morte del presidente del ...
Craigslist Countersues eBay For Deception And Phishing
2008-05-14 03:32:00 Craigslist Countersues eBay For Deception And PhishingCEO Jim Buckmaster claims eBay placed on Google ads that purported to direct users to Craigslist but instead sent them to Kijiji, a competitor owned by eBay.http://www.informationweek-.com/...
FBI Reports Tax Stimulus Phishing Campaign Underway
2008-05-12 12:24:00 The FBI Cyber Investigations Division issued a press release that spammers are phishing for people’s personal details using the tax stimulus program as bait. The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns consumers of recently reported spam e-mail purportedly from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which is actually an attempt to steal consumer information. The e-mail advises the ...
Flaw Turns Gmail Into Spamming Machine
2008-05-12 04:19:00 Uh boy. The spammers are at it again. From CNET: A “serious security flaw” in Gmail turns Google’s e-mail service into a spamming machine, according to a recent security report. INSERT, the Information Security Research Team, has created a proof of concept that exploits the “trust hierarchy” that exists between mail service providers. By exploiting a flaw in ...
Un nou atac de tip phishing la BRD
2008-05-10 02:23:00 Dup? scandalul cardurilor Millenium de la Bancpost, urmeaz? un atac asupra cline?ilor b?ncii BRD. Clien?ii acestei b?nci au primit în cursul zilei de ieri (9 mai 2008) un email prin care erau invita?i s? participe la un sondaj de opinie ( am primit ?i eu mesajul dar din p?cate l-am ?ters înainte s? scriu acest articol ). Atacul ho?ilor s-a materalizat printr-un domeniu web fantom? care a clonat perfect adresa www.brd.ro, iar cei care urmeaz? mesajul ?i se înscriu la acest sondaj sunt îndemna?i s?-?i treac? pe un formular datele de identificare, precum ?i informa?ii cu privire la accesul în conturile de?inute la BRD. Aceste informa?ii sunt trimise instantaneu c?tre o adres? de e-mail, sondaj@brd.ro , de unde intr? în posesia ho?ilor. În mai pu?in de dou? luni asta este al doilea atac masiv la care sunt supu?i clien?ii BRD. ?Sistemul de monitorizare al BRD- Groupe Société Générale a detectat si raportat imediat tentativa de phishing, site-ul fiind închis. Tentativa de ph...
By: HENRICH
Phishing Campaign Targets Tax Rebate Checks
2008-05-09 23:02:00 Phishing Campaign Targets Tax Rebate ChecksThe phishing messages claim that the fasted way to receive one's economic stimulus tax rebate is through direct deposit and include a Web link to an online submission form.http://www.informationweek-....
Phishing and the Phishers
2008-05-09 15:22:00 Ever since I got to blogging, I keep on receiving emails about winning a lottery, asking for help on money laundering, seeking for someone to process their money then a big commission and now another email sent to me that my Paypal account is currently flagged to "Limited Access". I actually received this kind of emails for so many times already but I keep on ignoring them. I'm thinking that who will believe this kind of scam. How can I win if I was not able to join a certain lottery. How can I lost my money on american bank or swiss banks if I don't have any account on that bank.This kind of email attacks for the purpose of getting your confidential information, deceiving you to send your own information is commonly known as phishing. It's really fishy. Phishers try to lure you on their fake websites which serves as a trap for you. Emails send to you will look so legitimate that if you're not that careful, you might get into their trap and give your information. A... |
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