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- Brightfilter Parental Control 2008 (exe)
- Brightfilter is a parental control solution that enables parents and administrators to quickly and easily set different filtering profiles on the same PC. One license covers up to three PCs. The service filters at the internet level, which means that the database used does not reside on the PC, but...
- Tags: Brightfilter, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Security, Desktops, Spam And Phishing, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-17
- Uncle Sam, defending your PC
- Joe St Sauver is the manager of Internet2 Security Programs. Internet2 is the consortium that explores advanced Internet topics. Last week St Sauver participated in a panel at the Anti-Phishing Working Group Counter e-Crime Summit where he argued PPT for eventual government involvement combating botnets. Wired and Ars...
- Tags: Security, Government
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
- Yesterday Microsoft announced that it was taking legal action in 104 cases against phishers, those clever criminals that put up fake banking and ecommerce sites and try to get you to reveal your username/password to them. While I applaud any effort to prosecute these cyberjerks I am...
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Number of phishing Web sites up 65% in December 2005
- The number of phishing Web sites grew by about 65% in December 2005. The Anti-Phishing Working Group reported that although the number of phishing emails fell between November 2005 and December 2005, the number of fraudulent Web sites increased from 4,630 to 7,197, which is a new record.
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- 'Active cookies' for better security?
- With 'pharming' technology, the cyber crooks put directly false information on domain name servers. Even if you manually type an URL, especially when using a Wi-Fi connection, you can't be sure that your request is not redirected to a wrong place. And there are no commercial tools to protect you...
- Tags: attack, pharming
- Blog posts 2006-02-20
- Phishing fight may be paying off
- Phishing fight may be paying offCat and Mouse game..."A total of 5,259 phishing sites were spotted in August, up substantially from 4,564 in July, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. At the same time, the number of spam e-mail campaigns to lure people to phishing sites decreased for the second...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, education, phishing, phishing Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-10-16
- 80% of phishing is targeted at financial institutions
- IDC quotes Anti-Phishing Working Group saying that financial sector has been consistently the target for 80% of the phishing attacks.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, phishing, financial, International Data Corp.
- Blog posts 2005-08-04
- Phishing Detection and Prevention: Practical Counter-Fraud Solutions
- As retail consumers eschew teller lines and physical check writing in favor of banking and paying bills online, criminals have followed their prey from the ATM and the physical mailbox to the home PC and broadband connection. Phishing is an automated form of identity theft, targeted primarily at the casual...
- Tags: TippingPoint Technologies, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Identity Theft, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2005-08-01
- 14,411 phishing attempts in April 2005
- In April 2005, the number of phishing attempts rose to 14,411, says Anti-Phishing Working Group. A drop in unique phishing e-mails was reported, down to 3,930, from 4,100 in March 2005. Number of phishing Web sites hosted in China increased to 2,854 active phishing sites reported in April 2005 (22%...
- Tags: phishing Web site, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-06-04
- Group pools data to trap phishers
- Group pools data to trap phishersoooh, me first!"The new database will be accessible only to Anti-Phishing Working Group members."in next weeks news:Laptop containing sensitive phishing list turns up missingwhen they get an e-mail address...I have a scam E-mail to send them.i want that email addy tooi have a folder of...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, phishing, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2005-06-02
- Phishing attacks up 2% in February 2005
- There were 13,141 unique phishing email messages reported to the Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG during February 2005, up 2% compared to January 2005. The number of phishing web sites supporting these activities rose 1.8% compared to the prior month to 2,625.
- Tags: February 2005, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-03-29
- Phishing attacks up 2% in February 2005
- There were 13,141 unique phishing email messages reported to the Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG during February 2005, up 2% compared to January 2005. The number of phishing web sites supporting these activities rose 1.8% compared to the prior month to 2,625.
- Tags: February 2005, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-03-29
- 32% of phishing sites are hosted in the US
- According to an Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG report on January 2005 phishing activity, 32% of scammers' Web sites were hosted in the United States. China was found to be in second place, hosting 13%, with Korea and Japan in third and fourth places with 10% and 3.1% respectively.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, phishing, phishing Web site
- Blog posts 2005-02-28
- 32% of phishing sites are hosted in the US
- According to an Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG report on January 2005 phishing activity, 32% of scammers' Web sites were hosted in the United States. China was found to be in second place, hosting 13%, with Korea and Japan in third and fourth places with 10% and 3.1% respectively.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, phishing, phishing Web site
- Blog posts 2005-02-28
- Anti-phishing group expands to address pharming
- Kim Cameron, an identity expert popular for his "Laws of Identity," reported in his blog that the Anti-Phishing Working Group APWG has added pharming to its web site. After praising the Group for not changing its name yet (so what if they do?) he points to a report the Group...
- Tags: pharming, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-02-22
- Going After Phishers
- You've no doubt been the target of phishing scams--those e-mails that claim there's some kind of problem with one of your accounts somewhere. When you click through to a legitimate-looking Web site, you're asked for personal information that can then be used by the phishers for various nefarious purposes. There's...
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2005-02-14
- Going After Phishers
- You've no doubt been the target of phishing scams--those e-mails that claim there's some kind of problem with one of your accounts somewhere. When you click through to a legitimate-looking Web site, you're asked for personal information that can then be used by the phishers for various nefarious purposes. There's...
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2005-02-14
- 1142 phishing Web sites in October 2004
- In October 2004 1,142 sites were used for phishing, up 110% from 543 sites reported in September 2004, according to Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of law enforcement, financial institutions and computer-security firms that tracks the online attacks. Almost 6,600 different phishing messages were reported to the group in...
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2004-11-24
- Microsoft's answer to phishing: Two IDs
- Microsoft's answer to phishing: Two IDsBarking up the wrong tree...Two factor authentication (e.g. something you have: token, something you now: password) is used to authenticate a user to an entity such as a bank.Two factor authentication does nothing to authenticate the entity, such as the bank, to the user.Banks or...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., phishing, Two-Factor Authentication, bank
- Discussion threads 2004-11-17
- Phishing attacks up 50% in January
- Attempted email fraud and phishing attacks went up 50% in January compared to the month before. There were an average of 5.7 new and unique phishing attacks each day in January, according to research by the Anti-Phishing Working Group. There were 176 unique attacks in January, of which only...
- Tags: phishing, attack
- Blog posts 2004-02-18
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