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- WOT for Firefox 20091028 (Windows)
- Keep yourself safe from spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, unreliable online shops, phishing, and other Internet scams. With the free WOT browser add-on, you can easily see the reliability of companies and websites. WOT will warn you and save your computer before you interact with a harmful site. WOT,...
- Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Web Browser, Phishing Web Site, WOT, WOT Rating, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Spam, Channel Management, Internet, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- WOT for Internet Explorer 20090414 (Windows)
- Make your Internet Explorer more secure with the WOT add-on. Keep yourself safe from spyware, adware, spam, viruses, browser exploits, unreliable online shops, phishing, and other Internet scams. With the free WOT browser add-on, you can easily see the reliability of companies and websites. WOT will warn you and save...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Site, Web Browser, Phishing Web Site, WOT, WOT Rating, Phishing, Web Browsers, Cyberthreats, Web Site Development, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-04-15
- Research: 76% of phishing sites hosted on compromised servers
- In a newly released paper entitled "Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing" Tyler Moore and Richard Clayton provide empirical evidence according to which 75.8% of the phishing sites that they've analyzed (2486 sites) were hosted on compromised web servers to which the phishers obtained access through...
- Tags: Server, Phishing Web Site, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annually
- To share phishing URLs, or not to share? That's the rhetorical question, since sharing ultimately serves the final customer and ensures a lower average time for a phishing site to remain online. In a recently published research (The consequence of non-cooperation in the fight against phishing) Tyler Moore and Richard...
- Tags: Phishing Web Site, Data Sharing, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- PhishTank SiteChecker 4.2 (Windows)
- PhishTank SiteChecker gives Firefox users a way to bring the community judgment of PhishTank into their favorite browser, for extra protection against phishing. SiteChecker comes in English, Swedish, Dutch, Chinese simplified and traditional, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Croatian, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Norwegian, Brazilian and more translations all the time. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Phishing Web Site, GS Networks, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2007-09-26
- Details of anti-phish detection technology revealed in Microsoft Patent app
- A Microsoft Patent application has just been published that goes into intricate detail about anti-phishing "predictive model" technology incorporated into Outlook and Outlook Express or providable to third-party providers.The app is entitled "Finding phishing sites." The Patent literature is arguably the most thorough description of how Microsoft email software attempts...
- Tags: Message, Report, Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Site, Web Browser, User, Host, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- SpyStopper Pro 5 (Windows)
- An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In real time, SpyStopper Pro blocks spyware, Web bugs, worms, cookies, ads, scripts, phishing sites, and other intrusive devices to protect you from being profiled and tracked. When you are online, you may be monitored or tracked without your knowledge...
- Tags: InfoWorks Technology, Microsoft Windows, Phishing Web Site, SpyStopper Pro, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2007-02-21
- PayPal fixes phishing hole
- PayPal fixes phishing holePunishing Phishing Website HostsWhen are our ISP's going to help protect their user communities by blocking all network traffic from Web Hosting companies that host Phishers, Organized Crime, and other assorted lowlifes until they identify the owners of discovered phishing sites, blacklist them all in an international...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, phishing Web site, phishing, PayPal, e-mail, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2006-06-17
- IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked
- Over the past few months I've become increasingly aware of the number of web sites being compromised and used for phishing and/or dropping malware. I expect the owners of the sites were unaware of what was going on. I've contacted ISPs and gotten a number of such sites shut...
- Tags: Web server, server
- Blog posts 2006-04-13
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effortA technological fix for social engineering?An attack on the site or anything else set up by the phisher is likely to be a case of barn door locking.As you wrote:And thirdly phishing attacks use elaborate social engineering to induce you to hand over your credentials...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Part-of Microsoft, phishing, phishing Web site, Microsoft Corp., redirector
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- 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
- Kits help phishing sites proliferate
- Kits help phishing sites proliferateWow, thanks MS for making this all possible. You have created hugeunderground networks to take advantage of the shoddy design and bugs in Windows.No, it's power lusers like you who made it possible.The only reason these people keep phishing is because they know there are people...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, Operating systems, phishing Web site, phishing, server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
- 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
- 5,259 phishing sites in August 2005
- Anti-Pbhishing Working Group found the number of reported new phishing campaigns declined in August 2005, but the number of new phishing sites reached an all-time high of 5,259. In July, 4,564 sites were reported.
- Tags: phishing
- Blog posts 2005-10-13
- Top phishing site hosters: USA - 32%, China - 12%, Korea - 11%
- Top phishing site hosters: USA - 32%, China - 12%, Korea - 11%This is pretty sad. Its sad because alot of companies arestopping the free webpage service due to the fact that people use them for phishing. Of course isp's do offer them as well, so i think...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, phishing, phishing site hoster, phishing Web site
- Discussion threads 2005-10-05
- Top phishing site hosters: USA - 32%, China - 12%, Korea - 11%
- WebSense estimated that United States hosts 32% of all phishing sites, followed by China with 12% and South Korea with 11%.
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, phishing Web site, phishing
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- 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
- 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
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