Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Although the two most-recent builds of Firefox 2.0, labeled 2.0.0.19 and 2.0.0.20, have omitted the defense, earlier editions of the browser were still able to query Google for a list of sites suspected of hosting identity theft scams. But Google is now shutting down the blacklist, said Mike Beltzner , ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009 TinyURL is a very handy service for shortening long URLs but it can also be used maliciously. Anytime somebody wants to hide where they are sending you they can easily generate a TinyURL and you will not know where you will end up. It could be a phishing site. It ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009 A bug found in all major browsers could make it easier for criminals to steal online banking credentials using a new type of attack called "in-session phishing," according to researchers at security vendor Trusteer.In-session phishing (pdf) gives the bad guys a solution to the biggest problem facing phishers these days: ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009 Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode.The new feature lets users add “force-https to your Google Chrome shortcut” to only load Web sites with valid security certificates. “Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load,” the company explained.The newest Chrome ...
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 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 ...
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