Archive for March, 2005

Surfers Losing Trust In Net Security

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

Phishing, Pharming and other online security threats are damaging online confidence.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Phishing Attacks Up In February

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

The Anti-Phishing Working Group states that the number of phishing attacks reported is still increasing.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Surfers Now More Phishing Savvy

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

A British body states that online banking customers are becoming increasingly phishing-savvy.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Firefox More Secure Than IE?

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

The president of the Mozilla foundation has claimed Firefox users surf more securely than users with Internet Explorer.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Phishing Attacks Continue To Rise

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

Symantec has issued a report confirming a massive upward trend in phishing attacks.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

Pharming Attacks Pose New Threat

Monday, March 21st, 2005

Pharming attacks are on the increase and pose a similar level of risk as phishing scams.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

New Phishing Trick Discovered

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

A new potentially undectable phishing tactic has been discovered.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

BoI Attacked In Phishing Scam

Friday, March 18th, 2005

The Bank of Ireland is the latest target of a phishing scam.

Original post by SecuMania Staff

IRS Audit

Thursday, March 17th, 2005

I read an article that described an interesting study. Treasury department inspectors were charged w/ auditing one of our nations biggest employer of auditors….The IRS. The auditors, in this case became the Treasury dept. inspectors, contacted 100 of the IRS’ employees to see if they could social engineer their way into acquiring information.

Original post by Yahoo! News Search Results for identity theft

Online Banking Failing Customers

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Online Banking facilities are massively failing consumers says Netcraft.

Original post by SecuMania Staff