TSA Website Attacked By Phishers?
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A new online method for trying to resolve travelers' problems boarding planes looks like a typical phishing attack. In 27B Stroke 6.
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By Laura Hancock Deseret Morning News  EAGLE MOUNTAIN -- A Web site formerly used by Pony Express Elementary's PTA became entangled in a phishing scam.  Sometime recently, hackers got access to software that parent Gerald Banks used for www.ponyexpresselementary.org.
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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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9 out of 10 crooks use ready-made code Phishing kits are helping to dumb down the process of creating fraudulent websites. Back in the day, setting up a bogus facsimile of a banking site required a modicum of programming skills. No more.â¦
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D., and Alane Kochems. The Department of Homeland security has announced a new program, âSecure Flight,â designed to screen flight passenger data and flag possible terrorists before they board an airplane.
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The latest information on phishing indicates that fraudsters are increasingly using malicious software to direct users to their deceptive sites.The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) said in a new report Thursday that it saw a sharp rise in November in malware that directs users to DNS (Domain Name System) servers controlled by&#160;phishers.DNS servers play a crucial role in locating Web sites. The servers translate a domain name into an IP (Internet protocol) address, enabling a Web site to be located and accessed through a browser.Often, the phishers will set up their own DNS server that works fine most of the time but can redirect to their own malicious site.Tainting a person&#39;s DNS settings is particularly dangerous since the user probably won&#39;t notice the redirection, the APWG said.&quot;The fraudulent server replies with &#39;good&#39; answers for most domains, however, when they want to direct you to a fraudulent one, they simply modify their name server responses,&quot; the report said.Phishers are also employing malware that modifies an internal PC file called the hosts, which is used to match domain names of Web sites with IP addresses.When a person visits a Web site, the browser checks the hosts to see if it has an IP address for a particular domain name. If the hosts file is corrupted or hijacked, the browser can be directed to fetch a different Web page than the one the user intended to go to.Both attacks -- also known as pharming -- are dangerous, since a user may be typing in the correct URL (uniform resource locator) but be directed to the phishing site.The APWG reported that the overall number of unique phishing sites declined in November, but 178 different brands were targeted, a record number. By comparison, 120 brands were used in phishing attacks in October. The highest previous total was in April 2007, when 174 brands were targeted.More Middle Eastern and European financial services companies were spoofed in phishing schemes, APWG said. The financial services industry is the most targeted for fraud, comprising 93.8 percent of all phishing attacks.&#160;
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Slashdot has a warning posted about the existence of a phishing scam directed toward Red Hat users. Read more to see the post. rixdaffy writes &quot;I just received an email from the &#39;Redhat Security Team&#39; telling
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Beware of any e-mail claiming to come from "frauddep@ftc.gov"--it carries a nasty payload.
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That email from your bank may be more than a friendly enquiry. It could be the hook of a Phisher, the new breed of Internet fraudster intent on stealing money by tricking customers into divulging online account details.
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privately run and not affiliated with the Transportation Security Administration â-ffers news (such as the Nazi salute allegedly flipped
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InfoWorld - Some Macintosh users have encountered a security program whose function and Web site have the tell-tale signs of a scam.
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McAfee issues revised forecast Data-swiping phishing sites are causing a greater security headache than expected while botnet numbers have taken an unexpected dip over recent months, according to revised security predictions by net security firm McAfee.â¦
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Blog: Writer is duped for the first time ever by a phishing attack; feels violated and ashamed
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The Transportation Security Administration takes down a fake boarding pass generator by sending a letter to the site's host, but the law doesn't give the government that power. Is it censorship by intimidation? In 27B Stroke 6.
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Much of the trouble centered on phishing, a type of attack where fake Web pages are constructed to harvest log-in details, credit card numbers or other personal information. And, oh yes, spam is back.
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Security experts warn of banner ads with a bad attitude--and a link to malicious code. Also: Phishers, be gone.
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Visit our glorious malware! Add embassy websites to the growing list of hacked internet destinations trying to infect visitor PCs with malware.â¦