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[Host Rage] Phishing Attacks Drop Year-Over-Year According to IID Report ...: TACOMA, Wash.—-IID , a provider οf technology аחԁ services tһаt һеƖр organizations secure Internet presence, today released іtѕ Second Quarter Phishing Trends Report tһаt revealed phishing attacks dropped іח tһе second quarter οf 2010 year-over-year.

[The Tech And Gadget Blog] Internet Safety | The Tech And Gadget Blog: Billions of dollars are stolen every year through a deceptive tacktic called “phishing.” The “phishers” are setting up a look-alike site (of a bank, for example) and sends out legitimate wishes of e-mails to trick the victims. please have a seat over there.

[HostingPublicity.com] OpenDNS PhishTank Community Launched: Launched in October 2006 to coincide with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the site employs a sophisticated voting system that requires the community to vote “phish” or “not phish,” reducing the possibility of false positives and improving the overall breadth and coverage of the phishing data. PhishTank makes all phishing data it accumulates public and available via programmable APIs, which allow other software developers to incorporate the anti-phishing data into their tools.

[IT PRO - Today] HMRC reports phishing surge | IT PRO: A record 83000 phishing attempts were reported to HMRC in Septmber 2009 and in the following month, an unprecedented 10000 reports of such scams were sent to HMRC on a single day. It's been over a year since a Swedish court ruled against four people behind The Pirate Bay website.

[Fraud Prevention] Credit Card Fraud: Phishing Boost Card-not-Present Fraud | Fraud ...: The e-commerce transaction uses the internet as its corner-stone and strength of operation but there is the perception that using a card to make a payment over the internet is risky and inflicted by information security .According to academic research, card-not-present fraud has been influenced by the static nature of the payment method which is vulnerable to phishing and other type of identity theft techniques because same data is used over and over again.

[Technology News Online] BitDefender Internet Security 2010 - 1 PC / 1 Year | Technology ...: I was not impressed as another ticket I opened was that the AV definition files would not update. The update would fail to contact the server and the PC would have to be rebooted to make a connection, despite my having a working high speed connection.

[American Banking News] Phishing Attacks Drop Year-Over-Year According to IID Report ...: TACOMA, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IID (Internet Identity), a provider of technology and services that help organizations secure Internet presence, today released its Second Quarter Phishing Trends Report (www.internetidentity.com/news/in-the-news) that revealed phishing attacks dropped in the second quarter of 2010 year-over-year. According to IID, phishing attacks were down 10 percent from April to June 2010 compared to the second quarter of 2009.

[Frederick's Timelog] Beware phishing e-mails - Battle.net scam | Frederick's Timelog: I’m sure seeing our Spam folder (or Junk, or Junk E-mail, and so on) fill up with useless e-mails is a common occurrence. I’ve learned to ignore it, and I almost never go into it to see if any important e-mails have been mistakenly identified as spam.

[cdo-cu.org] New Cure for Hassle-full Computing: These evil hackers continue to find more devious ways of stealing financial and proprietary information. It is important that every individual, family and business have a computer repair service plan in place to protect themselves from these cyber terrorists.

[The Security Blog» Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com] Phishing Attacks on Indian Banks on the Rise - Security Threat ...: A three percent increase in phishing attacks on Indian banks from the previous month has been observed. In particular, Symantec has observed phishing websites that spoofed the Oriental Bank of Commerce—several phishing URLs spoofing the bank were reported in the month of July.

[youssef mzaoui's blog] Security issiues in VOIP Applications - youssef mzaoui's blog: A virus or worm can be introduced to the network and crash the VoIP servers/gateways A denial of service attack can overwhelm the network and bring it down A hacker can access the call server to listen in to, record, or disrupt calls A hacker can give himself/herself or others access to services that are supposed to be restricted Hackers can access the trunk gateway to the PSTN and make unauthorized toll calls A hacker who accesses the call server can register "rogue" IP phones, which can then use the company's VoIP services

[The Security Blog» Latest InfoSec Threat Research & News | TheSecurityBlog.com] Battle Net password troll campaign (in Engrish) - Security Threat ...: Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment’s online service on which vast numbers of members play Starcraft and World of Warcraft. These are games in which characters have teeth like 400 pound Shih Tzus, VERY improbably hair styles and weapons that make top-level Pentagon officials salivate.

[Consumer Affairs Blog RSS feed] Consumer Alert: What is Tab-Nabbing? Internet Phishing Gets Sneakier: This year Wells Fargo was named the Best Consumer Internet Bank andBest Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank in the U.S. by GlobalFinance magazine’s World’sBest Internet Banks competition. Wells Fargo won again for BillPayment and Presentment, Best Web Site Design, and Best OnlineDeposits Acquisition, and added Best Integrated Consumer Bank Site.On the [...]

[Cebu Tech Blogger | Bringing Tech and Internet News to Cebu, Philippines] Maybank Online Alert - A Phishing Scam: However, when I hovered the cursor over http://www.maybank2u.com.my- there I was able to check that the Maybank website was only used as an anchor text of the real site which I was about to be diverted once I clicked the link. .... A 23- year old technocrat from Cebu City. I am the person behind the blog, Cebu Tech Blogger. I'm an official member and Content Management Committee of the Cebu Bloggers Society, where I also write some blogs - So basically, I'm a part-time ...

[ReputationDefender Blog] Reputation Defender : Reputation Management, Internet Privacy, and ...: This could have been used to link e-mail IDs with FB users. Secfence Technologies’s Atul Agarwal says, “Facebook users have no control over this, even as this works when you have set all privacy settings properly. Harvesting this data is very easy, as it can be easily bypassed by using a bunch of proxies.”

[eCocoma Web Consultant - Web Design, Web Services & Online Marketing for Small Business.] eCocoma Web Consultant - Phishing attacks drop, but threats still: Phishing attacks were down 10 percent from April to June 2010 compared to the second quarter of 2009, according to Internet Identity.However, the Tacoma-based company's Second Quarter Phishing Trends Report shows that despite this drop, phishing attacks targeting e-commerce, gaming, Web services and social networking sites significantly increased. .. 

[iLookBothWays] Broadband Adoption Slowing in Spite of National Plan « iLookBothWays: Enforcement: The FCC needs to coordinate with the appropriate agencies to ensure that law enforcement at the local, state and national levels are provided the manpower, training, and resources needed to adequately respond to online crimes. Consumers need to feel assured that crimes committed against them online will not go unpunished.

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