phishing news summaries

Phishing attacks reached a new high in November 2005, report shows Published February 26 2006 In November 2005, phishing attacks reached an all-time high, according to data collected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which showed 16,882 unique phishing attacks were reported that month by a...	Concepts: phishing, phishing attacks, government agencies, ISPs, china
FTC creates cybercrime education website Published February 26 2006 The Federal Trade Commission has launched a website, www.onguardonline.gov, to help educate consumers about internet crime -- such as identity theft, phishing, spam and online shopping scams --...	Concepts: cybercrime, Federal Trade Commission, identity theft, the FTC, phishing
eBay, PayPal targeted by phishers Published February 26 2006 In 2005, eBay and its associated PayPal payment service were the two largest targets of phishers, with 62 percent of more than 41,000 phishing URLS targeting them, according to the U.K.-based Web...	Concepts: PayPal, phishing, eBay, e-mail
IronPort enhances email traffic monitoring network Published February 21 2006 The San Bruno, Calif.-based email security vendor will add URL tracking and web reputation data filtering to its network. The result will be an increase in the anti-spam functionality of its email...	Concepts: IronPort, spam, e-mail, email traffic, e-mail security
Phishers continue to exploit holes in spite of increased security Published February 15 2006 Eweek.com looks at the success phishers are having in eluding capture, in spite of a growing number of online security measures aimed at shutting down the...	Concepts: phishing, eBay, Christmas
Credit unions now being targeted by phishers Published February 15 2006 According to CUISPA (Credit Union Information Security Professionals Association), corporate executives are now being targeted in a phishing scam that phishes via email from a fictitious credit...	Concepts: phishing, banking, e-mail, anti-virus software, information security
Microsoft announces an update to Windows Live to help fight phishing and spam Published January 24 2006 Windows Live is a web mail system that is currently being beta tested by the software giant. TechWeb.com reports that improvements are coming, including several categories rating incoming...	Concepts: Microsoft, phishing, natural health
Phishing scam promises big tax refunds Published January 24 2006 Enterprise Security Today reports of a new phishing attach purportedly from the IRS promising a tax refund. In order to collect, an individual is asked for a credit card and social security...	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, Social Security, Federal Trade Commission
Info World reports on Princess Diana phishing attack Published January 24 2006 A spam email reportedly associated with the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, which is a real fund, actually contains a real contact name, which is unusual in spam messages. The fund did not...	Concepts: phishing, spam, natural health
One quarter of Internet users subjected to phony deals Published January 2 2006 Wired News reports that a study done by AOL and the National Cyber Security Alliance indicates 1 in 4 users receive "phishing" scams in their inbox. The primary security for phishing is a little...	Concepts: internet users, e-mail, cyber security, phishing, AOL
Online safety improving, but many still lack critical software defense Published January 2 2006 The Online Safety Study analyzed the security of 354 broadband and dial-up users, and found that the number compromised by spyware and infected with an active virus had dropped from a year...	Concepts: online safety, identity theft, spyware, broadband, computers
Bank website security to be increased Published December 7 2005 Regulators with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council announced recently that bank websites will be required to implement some form of "two-factor" security authentication by the end...	Concepts: authentication, phishing, natural health
Falsely incriminated bank loses suit against Earthlink Published October 23 2005 When Earthlink's "ScamBlocker" toolbar incorrectly named Associated Bank as a possible phishing site, the bank sued the ISP for damages. The U.S. District Judge John Shabaz ruled that the Earthlink...	Concepts: Earthlink, phishing, telecommunications, immunization
Online companies spread the word about phishing schemes Published September 14 2005 Giving the rise in identity theft in the last six months, many large online sites are alerting customers to possible email scams that could result in identity...	Concepts: phishing, credit card, Wall Street, the Internet, identity theft
Figures show Mytob variants accounted for over half of August computer viruses Published September 14 2005 Mytob is causing mayhem in organizations that have not updated vulnerabilities. The Mytob variants that caused over half of the virus infections in August are thought to be the work of one of the men...	Concepts: phishing, infections, natural health
Microsoft races to catch up with Mozilla Published August 22 2005 Internet Explorer 7 is on its way, due for release in 2006, possibly bringing Microsoft up to speed with newer programs from Opera and...	Concepts: Microsoft, phishing, natural health
Banks are contributing to phishing problems, report shows Published August 15 2005 A new report has shown that banks are making it easier for criminals to steal your personal data and your money because they are not taking a simple and effective method to protect their...	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, natural health
Email summit participants push for spam safeguards Published July 31 2005 At a one-day summit in New York, representatives urged private sector administration and marketers to start adopting sender authentication technologies in order to safeguard email accounts for the...	Concepts: e-mail, spam, authentication, phishing, phishing attacks
Verisign says phishing attacks are still frequent, but less profitable so far this year Published July 8 2005 A recent article from Forbes says that while phishing attacks are still common, they're less profitable this year thanks to greater cooperation between companies and ISPs, according to Verisign's...	Concepts: VeriSign, phishing attacks, phishing, pharming
Government overwhelmed by spam, viruses and phishing attacks, concludes report Published July 8 2005 Cnet reports that the Government Accountability Office has concluded that departments like the IRS, Homeland Security and the FBI are all vulnerable to computer attacks that could potentially leak...	Concepts: phishing, spam, phishing attacks, Homeland Security, spyware
Hackers exploit flaws in browsers as worm and virus attacks decrease Published July 8 2005 A recent article from Cnet.com reports that while worm and virus attacks on computers have gone down, more hackers are taking advantage of security flaws in web browsers to gain control of users'...	Concepts: hackers, phishing, e-mail, security flaws, web browsers
Browsers suffer from phishing pop-ups Published July 5 2005 Java script dialogue boxes that trick people into disclosing personal information are becoming an increasing problem, according to internet security watchdog...	Concepts: phishing, natural health, renewable energy
Attorney: Identity theft is a wound that never really heals Published June 28 2005 In the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Cort Jensen, attorney for Montana's consumer protection office, likened identity theft to venereal disease in that it never really goes away, it flares up when you...	Concepts: identity theft, social security number, consumer protection, credit card, the Internet
Industry experts offer tips on how to avoid identity theft. Published June 28 2005 In an article published on their website, www.technewsworld.com, Tech News World informs readers how serious the holes in internet privacy are, and how they can best protect themselves from internet...	Concepts: pharming, e-mail, phishing, authentication, IronPort
Attorney: Identity theft is a wound that never really heals Published June 28 2005 In the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Cort Jensen, attorney for Montana's consumer protection office, likened identity theft to venereal disease in that it never really goes away, it flares up when you...	Concepts: identity theft, social security number, consumer protection, credit card, the Internet
Industry research shows phishers are getting better at disguising websites Published June 16 2005 If the existence of phishers (hackers who bait their targets with false websites to catch users account numbers and personal information) weren't bothersome enough for you, then ZD Net UK has good...	Concepts: phishing, natural health, renewable energy
New products offer total online privacy Published June 2 2005 Internet privacy and security providers Anonymizer and FraudEliminator recently released comprehensive identity theft products to use with FireFox and Internet Explorer. Anonymizer's "Total Privacy...	Concepts: Firefox, online fraud, spyware, pharming, the Internet
Although number of new phishing victims drops slightly, phishers are getting sneakier Published May 19 2005 Phishing, or baiting users into giving up account numbers and forms of identity, has seen a slight decrease in new victims this year, says the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). According to...	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, banking, malicious code, Brazil
Phishing may target smartphone users soon Published April 25 2005 Like computers, smartphones are at risk with spam and viruses. With the advance technology that we have today where financial transactions can be done through the computer or mobile phone, a person...	Concepts: phishing, cell phones, e-mail, computers, personal data
Bogus airline ticket sites used to scam credit card data Published April 19 2005 Web sites that sold airline tickets at extremely low prices have been shut down after it was found that they were fraudulently collecting credit card information and were not selling bona fide...	Concepts: credit card, anti-virus, PDAs, phishing
Phishing expeditions becoming more sophisticated, warn security experts Published April 19 2005 The number of phishing e-mails tracked by the Anti-Phishing Working Group grew only two percent between January and February of 2005, a significant reduction from the average monthly growth rate of...	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, phishing attacks, online fraud
New Attack on Computers – Pharming - New ebook fights back (press release) Published April 18 2005 A new form of attack on computers – Pharming – is on its way to your Desktop. People are just becoming aware of Phishing – emails that look like they are from well-known financial institutions...	Concepts: computers, pharming, America, spyware, computer users
APWG reports 2 percent increase in phishing attacks in February 2005 Published April 6 2005 The Anti-Phishing Working Group reveals that phishing attacks increased 2 percent in February 2005 compared to figures for January 2005. In total, there were 13,141 phishing emails reported to APWG...	Concepts: phishing, phishing attacks, pharming, identity theft
Internet Security Threat Report by Symantec reveals increase in internet crimes aimed at acquiring financial information Published April 2 2005 Data from Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report reveals that hackers are aiming to get people's financial information more than ever. The report, covering Jul-Dec 2004, shows that identity theft...	Concepts: Symantec, internet security, internet crimes, phishing, financial information
Symantec industry report reveals continuing rise of internet security threats Published April 2 2005 Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, which covers the last six months of 2004, reveals that malicious code aimed at revealing confidential information were 54% of the top 50 malicious code...	Concepts: Symantec, internet security, spam, malicious code, phishing
Multinational anti-spam, anti-phishing effort involves 26 nations Published March 21 2005 More than 70 law-enforcement agencies representing 26 nations conducted a joint "sweep" of the Internet in February, searching for spam artists and phishing operations. The United Kingdom's Office...	Concepts: spam, anti-spam, the Internet, e-mail, phishing
Phishers are now infecting DNS servers to send people to bogus web sites Published March 16 2005 A security loophole in Symantec's security system is being utilized by malicious hackers to send people to false sites that will steal their financial information. By infecting domain name servers...	Concepts: the Internet, Symantec, phishing, hackers, spyware
eBay working to fix software problem that opens system to phishing attacks Published March 10 2005 Auction company eBay is working to fix a software flaw in its system that lets phishers exploit the eBay system to redirect unwary customers to a non-eBay site. eBay is a popular target for...	Concepts: eBay, phishing, e-mail
Phishing scams are growing; attacks grew 42% in January alone Published March 8 2005 There was a 42% rise in phishing emails in January, which is a stark increase compared to the average 30% growth average in the previous six months. These emails are designed to send consumers to...	Concepts: phishing, natural health, renewable energy
E-commerce giants cooperate to stop phishing attacks Published February 21 2005 Phishing, the practice of sending fake e-mails that appear to come from legitimate e-commerce companies in an attempt to elicit sensitive information from recipients, may have met its match. ...	Concepts: phishing, e-commerce, Microsoft, eBay, e-mail
Computer viruses threaten everything from cell phones to car engines, industry report says Published February 15 2005 IBM's security consultants have researched customer data and government security statistics about ways computer viruses might effect widely used consumer products, and their resulting report is...	Concepts: computer viruses, cell phones, IBM, computers, phishing
Netscape plans release of new browser with tighter security Published February 7 2005 Former browser powerhouse Netscape is expected to release a test version of a Web browser that is equipped to foil phishing schemes and other hacker activity. The new version of the Netscape 8...	Concepts: Netscape, phishing, Microsoft, web browser, Intel
PayPal security breach may expand phishing concerns Published February 1 2005 Online payment facilitator PayPal announced that a small security breach had released the e-mail addresses of an undisclosed number of its customers onto the Internet. The breach did not publish any...	Concepts: PayPal, e-mail, phishing, financial information, the Internet
Corporations are working together to stop identity theft Published January 24 2005 One of the most popular techniques people use to steal peoples' identity is phishing: sending out mass emails that look like they came from a large corporations, but are actually scams in which...	Concepts: corporations, phishing, e-mail, e-commerce
New plug-in aims to help Explorer users stay clear of phishing bait Published January 20 2005 The Internet security company Netcraft has released a new plug in that can help Internet Explorer users avoid online fraud. The new program installs a browser tool bar button that allows users to see...	Concepts: phishing, online fraud, the Internet, internet security
Phishing on the rise as Internet criminals discover its lucrative potential Published January 20 2005 An Internet crime-fighting group says that, in November alone, it received 8,459 new reports of phishing attempts. That's four times the number reported in August, and reports have been up 34 percent...	Concepts: phishing, criminals, internet crime, e-mail
Customers looking for ways to avoid phishing attakcs when banks contact them Published January 19 2005 With phone and e-mail fraud apparently on the rise, consumer groups are now asking asking banks to find ways to prove their identity when contacting customers. The groups are encouraging their...	Concepts: phishing, authentication, natural health
Phishing grows in scope; spreading rapidly throughout the Internet Published January 18 2005 Phishing - luring victims into revealing personal financial information by sending legitimate-appearing e-mails from financial or business institutions - is growing by leaps and bounds. The...	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, internet crime
Internet con artists can launch phishing attacks through innocent looking pop-up windows Published December 9 2004 Yet one more reason to block pop-up ads…	Concepts: phishing attacks, phishing, con artists, Microsoft
Phishing schemes multiply across the internet, targeted end users and harming financial institutions Published December 2 2004	Concepts: phishing, the Internet, e-mail
Phishing attacks continue to rise as internet fraud accelerates Published November 29 2004 You have probably already received one of these phishing scams in your inbox, and you can be prepared for a whole new set to arrive shortly. These automatic phishing scams will appear to be genuine...	Concepts: phishing, phishing attacks, internet fraud
Phishing continues to haunt internet users as top internet crime Published November 18 2004	Concepts: phishing, internet users, credit card, PayPal, e-mail
Advanced email phishing attacks steal passwords and compromise computer security Published November 8 2004	Concepts: phishing, phishing attacks, banking
New tactics emerge to combat phishing attacks Published October 13 2004	Concepts: phishing, PayPal, e-mail, the Internet, caller ID
Sender ID - a primer Published October 13 2004	Concepts: Sender ID, phishing, credit card
Major email providers adopt community anti-spam protocols Published October 13 2004	Concepts: e-mail, anti-spam, SPF, phishing, Microsoft
Large UK bank mistake sets up customers for email phishing scams Published October 5 2004	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, credit cards
Spammers and virus writers join forces to create zombie PCs Published October 5 2004	Concepts: spammers, spam, e-mail, phishing
Deceptive emails, phishing could cost consumers $500 million this year Published October 5 2004	Concepts: phishing, e-mail, natural health
Major ISPs ask mailers to comply with SPF standard to eliminate junk email Published October 4 2004	Concepts: SPF, ISPs, e-mail, spam, phishing
Phishing attacks growing globally Published September 20 2004	Concepts: phishing, phishing attacks, spam, banking, credit card
Phishing attacks reaching epidemic proportions Published September 20 2004	Concepts: phishing, phishing attacks, epidemic, e-mail, Gartner Group
DMA anti-spam effort really focused on phishing, not spam Published September 13 2004	Concepts: spam, DMA, phishing, anti-spam, Operation Slam Spam

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