One in five consumer scam complaints received by Australia's securities and investments regulator this financial year related to phishing, its consumer protection boss warned today.
FBI officials are warning users of a new phishing scam that plays off a recent round of bogus extortion threats.
Phishing and software-based investment scams are the targets of warnings sent out today by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to mark National Consumers' Day.
As a fresh round of phishing spam targets Australian tax payers, the ATO's CIO has warned fake Web sites designed to steal Australian credit card and personal details are "a fact of life".
More than a million users were duped by phishing attacks last year, compared to the year before.
Software filters that are designed to block access to fraudulent Web sites are largely ineffective at protecting against new attacks, according to security experts.
Individuals have been warned about the threat of identity theft for years. Now it's the turn of businesses.
New variants of the Mytob worm are using a phishing-style e-mail to fool people into downloading malicious code.
Phishing complaints from Westpac customers have massively declined since the height of the hoax last year, according to the bank.
Security experts are warning that an email claiming to contain a video of Osama Bin Laden's reaction to the US election result contains a worm. The email is signed by The Hobbit.
Thunderbird 2 provides a compelling option for users looking for an open source e-mail client.
AVG Internet Security 8.0 provides strong protection against malicious Web sites, but its full-system scans sometimes tax system resources and produce false positives.
While Norton Confidential beta from Symantec aims to protect your online transactions, and its antisphishing toolbar compares favourably to Netcraft's own offering, we found the Norton package to be overly large, including many other Symantec applets that seem unnecessary.
System Mechanic 7 Professional goes beyond its original greatness, morphing a system utility suite into a kind of grand security suite. As such, it comes up short.
Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2007 was hard to install and produced several noticeable glitches that distracted us from the benefits of the suite.
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