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[The Secure Channel] Phishing attacks 101: It’s actually common for a victim of a phishing attack to have never even heard of the term “phishing”. A phishing attack is after all just a confidence scam which prays on the target’s ignorance of the scam. The criminal gains the target’s confidence by taking advantage of the target’s fear, compassion, or optimism in order to get something.

 [NetworkWorld.com Community -] Quiet Cisco PIX end-of-sale (EOS) notice kindles PIX trade-in ...: In regards to One-Click VPN, Astaro's focus is more on the Free of Charge statement, since ASA does have SSL vpn, (Astaro is not web portal based but rather a full IP ssl vpn) however Cisco offers only a 2 client sampler free of charge, not unlimited clients for multi-OS’s as part of the base price.

[Erik Selberg] And then there were two”¦: The ~5 years it’ll take for Microsoft to absorb Yahoo on the portal side alone (Hotmail + Yahoo Mail, MSN Money + Yahoo Finance, MSN Messenger + Yahoo Messenger, etc.) will distract from doing something new that’ll convince customers to leave Google.

[I Stole Your Identity] DNS Poisoning Getting Serious - Phishing from Open Recursive DNS ...: Hosting Phishing Sites; Real Network Visualization; WPAD DNS bug rises once again; Help can be found before, after theft (The Express-Times); Getting free Ringtones out of your iTunes songs; Dam that spam; Building a security plan ...

[Spyware] Process Software Launches a New Version of SpyCatcher Enterprise ...: a two-horse race between SurfControl CEO Steve Purdham and MessageLabs CEO Ben White who both saw their companies hit the headlines and grow the bottom lines last year riding a wave of phishing, spam, spyware and Read More .

[[MobileRatty] Lattest Articles] Botnet A Sleeping bionic hacker network: Another tier of smaller, multipurpose botnets spring from widely available tool kits that make it easy for anyone to infect computers, assemble a basic botnet and embark on a criminal career. Dozens of crime rings, for instance, have cropped up to run phishing scams that lure victims into clicking on fake Web pages where they get tricked into disclosing passwords and other sensitive data.

[Top News Blog] Myspace Cursers: In September 2006, a lengthy article written by journalist Web Trent Lapinski, "MySpace The Business 2 myspace.0 Spam, "published by the Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag (Gawker Media property) myspace.

[Data Security Blog] Some Amazing Facts about global IT Security: 1 out of every 600 social network profile pages hosts some malware 11% of Americans received a notice that their private data had been compromised 1142 phishing Web sites in October 2004 120 mln credit cards compromised in 2004 .

[I Stole Your Identity] Really Interesting Blog Snippets I Don’t Have Time to Comment On”¦: Adobe releases critical security patch for Flash Player; Salesforce.com falls victim to phishing attacks;

 [Minghui's space] News: A: Bots (millions of PCs hijacked by hackers to spread spam, malware and other bad things) are the engines that drive everything. We’re also seeing 17000 new phishing websites permonth now, compared with 40000 in all of 2006.

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