The latest innovation in identity fraud typically begins with an unexpected e-mail message from a financial institution proclaiming something like: "Your account information needs to be updated due to inactive members, frauds and spoof reports."
Phishing attacks have outnumbered e-mails infected with viruses and Trojan horse programs for the first time, according to security experts.
A vulnerability in Firefox could make users of the open source browser more likely to fall for phishing scams.
A security weakness in a standard for handling special character sets in domain names could let an attacker spoof Web sites on non-Microsoft browsers, a researcher has warned.
Microsoft will release a software update to Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer designed to protect Web surfers from being lured to Web sites that might contain malicious code, the software giant said Wednesday.
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