Monday, May 5th, 2008
Today I decided to give a very brief example on pharming and why it's so easy to pharm surfers with little or no skills. Usually, browser exploit writers give simple examples on how to read the boot files, or launch a calculator. There is so much you can do with ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
PayPal says allowing customers to make financial transactions on unsafe browsers "is equal to a car manufacturer allowing drivers to buy one of their vehicles without seat belts."
PayPal, one of the brands most spoofed in phishing attacks, is working on a plan to block its users from making transactions from ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Google on Friday said that it has been testing ways to index data that is normally hidden to search engine crawlers, a change that should improve the breadth of information available through Google.
The so-called "hidden Web" that Google has begun indexing refers to data beyond static Web pages, such as Web ...
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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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