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Saturday, June 24, 2006

PayPal Fills Phishing Hole  (Phishing)


PayPal Fills Phishing Hole 
Online payment company PayPal reported that it has fixed a Web site glitch through which the operators of a phishing scheme had been attempting to steal personal data of the company's customers.

1,000 Aussies caught in NAB phishing attack 
Reminder to keep patches up to date A phishing email claiming that The National Australia Bank (NAB) is bankrupt has caught more than 1,000 of the bank's customers in its net.

Doombot Worm Spreads Via Phishing Model Attack 
Security experts at MicroWorld Technologies inform that a Backdoor Worm named 'Doombot.k', is spreading fast via 'abuse warning' emails, spoofing domain names of security software companies and leading business houses.

IronPort Introduces NetCache Trade-In 
IronPort Systems Inc., the leader in gateway security, today announced a special trade-in program for customers of Network Appliance's NetCache product. The credit makes it even easier for enterprise customers to upgrade from web caching appliances to IronPort's new web security appliances. Web caching systems were widely deployed in the late 1990's and early part of 2000. These systems were

Tokens and SDK support OATH one-time password algorithm. 
ActivIdentity Mini Token OE and ActivIdentity Authentication SDK support HMAC One-Time-Password (HOTP) algorithm technology developed by Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH). To help combat Internet fraud, authentication tokens identify users and grant secure access to banking services. They are waterproof to 1 m and have lifespans of up to 10 years. SDK enables development of OATH HOTP