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Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Phishing - How Does The Hacker Economy Work?


How Does The Hacker Economy Work?
Information Week - How Does The Hacker Economy Work? It's a murky world of chat rooms, malware factories, and sophisticated phishing schemes. Here's a look inside. By Larry Greenemeier J. Nicholas

Assurix Named UK "VAR of the Year" for 2006 by Finjan
PR Inside - Assurix recognises that the web has now become the undisputed payload vector for attacks such as Spyware, Phishing, viruses, Trojans and other malicious code, and consequently poses one of the greatest challenges to businesses and organisations today

Security Step 2: Prevention
eWeek - Anti-virus software is undoubtedly deployed already as a reactive solution; admins must also decide whether anti-spyware, anti-phishing, anti-spam, rootkit detection or host IPSes (intrusion prevention systems) will help shore up desktop defenses

NCAC's New Blacklist Targets Pirate Firms
ChinaTechNews.com - Local media report that the National Copyright Administration of China will join hands with other concerned government departments to carry out a special campaign to beat online piracy. Because many phishing, spamming, and pirate software websites

Data leakage: Good intentions can go bad
ZDNet - that have not been traditionally thought of as "at risk" for personal data breaches including; publicly released court documents, Internet Web search research data and a URL database in a security tool intended to reduce the risk of phishing. The