A prominent anti-virus vendor has described the latest email fraud scheme targeted at Westpac bank customers as the most "devious" the company has ever encountered.
The number of "phishing" e-mails circulating on the Web has increased from 279 to 215,643 over the past six months, according to e-mail security company MessageLabs.
FBI officials are warning users of a new phishing scam that plays off a recent round of bogus extortion threats.
More than a million users were duped by phishing attacks last year, compared to the year before.
A new phishing e-mail aimed at diverting donations to the Australian Paralympic Team has emerged -- complete with a coding error which means that the cold-hearted scam is unlikely to work.
Following a rash of Telstra customers reporting phishing attacks, the telco has issued advice on how to discern the real Telstra from fake ones -- but the advice it gives is more likely to help phishers than its customers.
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.
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.
This week I learned about a "trick" that you can do in Windows which, as far as I am concerned, is a serious security risk.
A new phishing e-mail aimed at diverting donations to the Australian Paralympic Team has emerged -- complete with a coding error which means that the cold-hearted scam is unlikely to work.
The rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Either educate customers or lose them.
The software giant has released its January batch of patches but has failed to fix an Internet Explorer 'phishing' vulnerability.
After a decade, even your mom buys books online. But are "secure" transactions secure enough?
Do you think banks and financial institutions in Australia are doing enough to protect consumers from "phishing expeditions"?
Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
Thunderbird 2 provides a compelling option for users looking for an open source e-mail client.
Of the antispam apps we've seen, MailFrontier Desktop is the best at doing exactly what it's supposed to do: block spam.
While Firefox 1.5 isn't too different from the original release, what's new should attract even more Firefox users -- and that's ultimately good for the Internet.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
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