Financial services companies remain the most frequent targets of online phishing schemes, according to the latest figures released by an organisation working to fight the scams.
The first volley in a concerted JPEG virus attack may involve a phishing scam, according to computer security specialists, Computer Associates.
Australian Federal Police are seeking the co-operation of French authorities to move against a phishing scam operation targeting local banks over the last month, according to AusCERT.
A small Queensland-based casting agency's credibility is in tatters after phishers used the company's name in an e-mail scam.
An estimated one in five Americans were the target of a "phishing" attack in the past year, as the number of such Internet scams rose dramatically, according to a study released on in the US early today.
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.
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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.
Online fraudsters are getting smarter and the current round of "phishing scams" may just be the start, according Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC) head Alastair MacGibbon.
McAfee has released updates to its spam prevention service and personal firewall software to help home users combat the growing form of online fraud known as "phishing."
New variants of the Mytob worm are using a phishing-style e-mail to fool people into downloading malicious code.
Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
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Of the antispam apps we've seen, MailFrontier Desktop is the best at doing exactly what it's supposed to do: block spam.
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