Saturday, March 8th, 2008 "After three unsuccessful attempts to access your account, your Online Profile has been locked. This has been done to secure your accounts and to protect your private information. You may unlock your profile by going to: ..." Sounds like a normal phishing e-mail, right? But what if the e-mail seemed ...
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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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