Phishy e-mails and Web sites: What&#39;s your responsibility?
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AUGUST 24, 2004  - Welcome to Computerworld.com&#39;s new monthly column on IT ethics by Larry Ponemon. The Ponemon Institute in Tucson, Ariz.
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EBay and PayPal, once the primary lures used by phishers to trick e-mail users into giving up personal information, aren&#39;t as popular as they used to be.According to security vendor Sophos, which monitors&#160;spam and phishing&#160;e-mails to catch new blasts and determine trends, the number of messages pretending to be from eBay or its payment subsidiary PayPal has dropped from 85 percent of all phishing e-mails a year ago to 21 percent in September.&quot;That&#39;s an impressive turnaround by anyone&#39;s standards,&quot; said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, in a prepared statement.Cluley attributes this drop in part to&#160;online initiatives&#160;by eBay and PayPal to educate their customers about phishing scams, and to PayPal&#39;s launch earlier this year of an&#160;authentication keyfob&#160;that creates a dynamic password for customers concerned with fraud.Sophos says the amount of phishing attacks circulating have stayed relatively consistent over the past year, but now phishers are using different tactics to try and fool recipients. Phishers are beginning to diversify by spoofing small credit unions, other online retailers, and overseas companies, he says.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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Is your computer part of a bot army, infiltrating systems and spreading spam?
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Described by one researcher as "sort of the Keyser Sze of phishing," the Rock Phish criminal organziation is responsible for as many as one-half of all current phishing attacks. Problem is, no one's sure who they are, or even if it isn't just one person.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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Your credit card information is coming under more frequent attack on the Internet than ever before. A study by Symantec Corp. says electronic commerce has become the favourite target of computer hackers.
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Next time an e-card with a jolly message drops into your computer&#39;s inbox, think before you click it open - it could be a virus which will implant itself in your machine and spread before you even realise it.
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Money the prime motivator as viruses and spam converge  63.5% of all email during the first six months of 2004 was spam  Over 1.5 million phishing emails intercepted  Spyware makes its first appearance in the spam attack arsenal Sydney. 17th ...
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A phishing scam has been detected that doesn&#39;t require users to click on a link in order to jeopardise their personal data. Simply opening the email may be enough, according to Messagelabs.
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Clever e-mail can fool you into giving your info to thieves. Find out how not to fall prey.
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The online cons known as &quot;phishing&quot; have cost US consumers $500 million, according to a study released Wednesday. In addition, the study found that three-quarters of wired Americans have noticed an increase
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By Staff Reports  Adults users should protect their personal and financial information from 'phishing.'   Many older users may be leery about safety when using MySpace.
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InfoWorld - The latest information on phishing indicates that fraudsters are increasingly using malicious software to direct users to their deceptive sites.
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Siblings are the first ever to be convicted for sending boatloads of junk e-mail pushing bogus products. Also: Microsoft takes MSN music download on a Euro trip....  Nokia begins legal battle against European counterparts.... and more.
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Think you're safe from Internet fraud? Think again.
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It wasn&#39;t long ago that competitive entities seemed to be joining together to combat Internet users&#39; common foe, spam. However, despite the fact that big Internet players
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Whatever happened to mass-mailing viruses? The lazy, hazy days of summer witnessed a continuation of the ongoing shift from large-scale virus outbreaks toward phishing and more targeted attacks, according to a study by net security firm MessageLabs.â¦