Security experts blast New Jersey AG
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Security experts are saying that a well-intentioned effort by the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General to combat phishing may backfire.Earlier this week, State Attorney General Anne Milgram called on four banks -- Bank of America, Citibank, Washington Mutual, and New Jersey-based Sun National Bank -- to provide her with details on how they respond to phishing incidents.This is a good move that will probably raise awareness about phishing, observers say. However, Milgram also asked the banks to send e-mail to their online customers, warning them that the bank has been a recent target for phishing scams and offering advice on how to tell fake e-mails form the real thing.That raised a red flag with anti-phishing experts.&quot;The New Jersey Attorney General asking the banks to send out another e-mail to clients is opening up ... those banks to be phished yet again,&quot; said Paul Laudanski, leader of the Phishing Incident Reporting and Termination squad project. &quot;I can see the phishers writing in a new e-mail scam campaign &#39;The New Jersey AG has asked us to inform you that you have been phished, please click this link to secure your account.&#39; Trouble, trouble, trouble! This is a setup for failure,&quot; he wrote in an e-mail message.Dave Jevans, chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group said that while he applauded Milgram&#39;s effort to educate consumers by inquiring directly with bank CEOs, he &quot;would have preferred that the Attorney General waited to hear back from these banks before issuing a request to send e-mails out to all their customers. That type of e-mail can set the stage for waves of copy-cat phishing,&quot; he said via e-mail. &quot;If the phishers send out fake e-mails of this type before the banks get to it, there&#39;s a potential problem.&quot;Even Katherine Tassi, Washington State&#39;s assistant attorney general, said she thought there could be problems. &quot;Consumers are already confused enough about whether e-mail from a bank is authentic or not,&quot; she said via e-mail. &quot;A lot of banks do, in fact, communicate by e-mail to their consumers, which is something that makes the problem worse.&quot; That&#39;s because consumers become more trusting of the e-mails, even messages that may be from a malicious source.Milgram&#39;s spokesman, Lee Moore, said that banks should use every means possible to educate their customers about phishing -- including e-mail. &quot;Banks need to compete with the phishers in the customer&#39;s e-mail box with the right message,&quot; he said.The New Jersey AG has been receiving more and more phishing complaints of late and is coming to view the phenomenon as a growing concern, Moore added.As of late Thursday, his office had not heard back from any of the banks.
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