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Sunday, December 03, 2006

Phishing attack targets SBI customers


Phishing attack targets SBI customers
CIOL, India - Nov 16, 2006NEW DELHI: Websense Security Labs today said it has received reports of a phishing attack that targets customers of State Bank of India. ...

Flimsy filters won�t cut phishing lines
What PC?, UK - Nov 27, 2006According to a test commissioned by Mozilla and carried out by SmartWare, Firefox 2.0 blocks around 80 percent of known phishing URLs and Internet Explorer 7 ...

Microsoft Swoops Down on Phishing
Techtree.com, India - Nov 23, 2006According to reports, as part of its "Global Phishing Enforcement Program" Microsoft has filed nearly 129 lawsuits across Europe and the Middle East against ...

Mozilla's take on phishing filters - Firefox better than IE
heise Security, UK - Nov 15, 2006A study initiated by Mozilla of the integrated phishing filters in Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 has concluded that the Firefox filter is superior. ...

Malaysian government portal used in PayPal phishing scam
Help Net Security, Croatia - Nov 20, 2006An antispam researcher has uncovered a phishing scam that uses computers belonging to a medical transcription outsourcing company and the government of ...

Phishing and pharming and fraud, oh my! Sleuthing the cyber ...
Indiana University, IN - Nov 29, 2006That's the focus of Phishing and Countermeasures: Understanding the Increasing Problem of Electronic Identity Theft (John Wiley & Sons Inc.), a new book ...