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  • Antiphishing group casts line at new threats

    Faced with a rise in so-called pharming and crimeware attacks, the Anti-Phishing Working Group will expand its charter to include these emerging threats.

  • Interpol: Give us the tools to fight cybercrime

    Interpol has called on politicians to help law enforcement officers bring cybercriminals to justice by making it easier for evidence to be transferred between countries.

  • Security firms clash over phishy e-mails

    Banks and security experts cannot agree wether it is safe for banks to continue using e-mail for communicating with their customers because the medium has been hijacked by criminals who try and fool online banking users into divulging their log in details.

  • Yahoo hosting 'thousands' of phishing sites

    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.

  • Phishers use Yahoo Photos site as bait

    Antivirus firm Trend Micro is warning of an almost exact replica of the Yahoo Photos Web site that has been designed to steal identities and could infect a user's PCs with malware.

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Banks are confusing consumers on PC security

    Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.

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  • Norton AntiVirus 2007

    By rewriting much of the code, Symantec made Norton AntiVirus 2007 faster and lighter than its 2006 version, but a few glitches here and there keep us from granting it our Editors' Choice award.

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