In a new phishing trend, spammers are focusing on individualized attacks. Recipients may be deceived into thinking the message is from a friend, but these spammers want access to their credit card accounts. Phishing is a common scamming practice that …
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… Eastern European gang for about two-thirds of all phishing attempts conducted in the last half of 2009. The phishing group — named Avalanche … said Greg Aaron, director of domain security with Internet infrastructure vendor Afilias, one of …
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… there’s confusion in these treaty negotiations because of lack of clarity about which problems they’re trying to solve,” said Scott Charney, vice-president of Microsoft Corp.’s Trustworthy Computing Group, before a speech at the Worldwide …
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… Computer security analysts said at a conference … cooperate on Internet security. LOOK IT UP: It’s often used to refer to anything from financial crimes to attacks over the Internet that actually could kill people. THE IMPLICATION: The “war”
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