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Sunday, April 16, 2006

Microsoft in legal war on phishing (Identity Theft Prevention)


Microsoft in legal war on phishing
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - Mar 20, 2006The company said 53 of the cases against people who engage in so-called 'phishing' will have begun by the end of this month. The ...
Source: news.monstersandcritics.com

Why phishing works
SecurityFocus, CA - Mar 31, 2006Researchers at Harvard University and UC Berkeley publish a document explaining why phishing works for general users. The ten-page ...
Source: www.securityfocus.com

"PIRT Squad," An Anti-Phishing Task Force
Government Technology, CA - Apr 4, 2006... a globally oriented security and privacy site, and Sunbelt Software, a leading provider of Windows security software, announced a new anti-phishing task force ...
Source: www.govtech.net

NCL leads calls for action against phishing
SC Magazine, UK - Mar 20, 2006... Consumers League (NCL) has brought together law enforcement organisations, financial services and technical industries to combat the growing threat of phishing ...
Source: www.scmagazine.com

How phishing sites fool us
The Age, Australia - Mar 30, 2006Solving the puzzle of why so many people fall for the email-based phishing attacks was the driving force behind a US research study which reveals that ...
Source: www.theage.com.au

New IE security flaw could aid phishing scams
Silicon.com, UK - Apr 7, 2006An unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer could aid fraudsters in pulling off phishing scams, experts have warned. The error ...
Source: software.silicon.com