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New Chinese targets put phishing on the rise – GCN.com

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Accurate figures for phishing attacks are hard to come by. According to the most recent figures assembled by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, phishing peaked in late 2009, with a record 126,697 distinct attacks identified. The numbers for 2010 are well …
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To defeat phishing, Energy learns to phish – GCN.com

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The Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory received more than 500 e-mails in April that appeared to be from the lab’s benefits department and contained a link for more information. The link which actually downloaded malicious code when users …
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