A small Queensland-based casting agency's credibility is in tatters after phishers used the company's name in an e-mail scam.
The online banking system of Westpac was crippled several times and its customers were the target of a phishing attack but the bank has denied the two incidents were related.
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Educating users to recognise potential phishing scams may no longer be an effective tool because recent attacks were so sophisticated that fraudulent sites are virtually indistinguishable from the original, according to MessageLabs.
Symantec has agreed to acquire privately held WholeSecurity, which makes products to fight phishing scams and detect malicious code attacks.
In three years phishing has transformed from an unknown threat into a multi-million dollar industry; in the next stage of its evolution, phishers will avoid using spam and instead hijack small parts of 'trusted' Web sites in order to bypass anti-phishing tools.
Online fraud scams are increasingly turning their sights to credit unions, according to a new report.
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