Phishers using Google Maps mashup to locate victims
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A Google Maps mashup that pinpoints the physical location of affected IP addresses is just one component of an elaborate phishing scam designed to separate bank customers from their money. The scam targets account holders at firms including Bank of America, Germany's Deutsche Bank, and Australia's Westpac and Commonwealth Bank.
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Google is offering developers the same security API it and Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox use to identify and warn users about phishing and malware-dropping sites.
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LAS VEGAS  - The hot new technology behind slick Web pages has suddenly become the hot new tool for cybercriminals. The technology, Ajax coding and Web tools, enables popular websites such as Google Maps and MySpace.com to come alive.
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Google will introduce a new feature that lets users create personalized maps which plot the locations of everything from cheap gas locally to the latest earthquakes worldwide.
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AOL Instant Messenger message directs victims to Web sites that host the dangerous images.
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Lycos vigilante attack on spammers has been hit by a vigilante attack. Spammers are suspected.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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Malicious hackers tout a site with an strip show download to entice victims to download malware.
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Swindlers combine spam with hoax sites to try to rip off your personal data.
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Some websites are now offering surfers the chance to download free &quot;phishing kits&quot; containing all the graphics, web code and text required to construct the kind of bogus sites used in internet phishing scams.
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Google has acknowledged two vulnerabilities in its Web site that could allow phishers to alter the appearance of its pages in order to dupe visitors -- and possibly lure them into giving away credit-card information.
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By Sara Kehaulani Goo, Washington Post Staff Writer  Last June, Google launched a service offering a one-click method of paying for purchases that minimizes the risk of credit card information being stolen off a Web site.
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Google's real-time viewer allows users to watch as other users around the world make changes to locations on maps.
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Online tricksters looking to dupe consumers out of credit card numbers and other personal information have netted about $500 million from their hapless victims in the US, a national study released Wednesday showed.
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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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Topix.net cooks up a geolocating algorithm that rounds up regionally relevant write-ups. In Epicenter.
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Ogling Google can be a dangerous pastime.