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While America sleeps, and the drive-by media obsesses over who will buy the U.S. presidency, billions of internet users' dollars are being put to work for online crime... and ICANN, the people who bring you the internet, are planning their escape from Washington, D.C. ... Not good news!
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More than a month ago, a mail was circulated, bearing the subject "must see slideshow... world is ending". But on clicking the link, you are taken to a page which looks exactly like Orkut. Naturally, a normal user would log in with his Google account and password, without checking out the URL. Deadly. Great Indian Mutiny - Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Phishing attacks were unlikely to miss the world's most popular MMO to date: a World of Warcraft-oriented phishing campaign has been initiated. Watch out for any spooky emails claiming that your account has been suspended. Portal IT - Bucharest, Romania
According to a briefing paper on cyber crimes prepared by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, a total of 1,843 crimes involving computers were reported to police in 2007. This is more than three times the number of 527 reported in 2006. Inquirer.net - Philippines
Vickie Moyle of Nenana and Margaret Sanders of Fairbanks want people to know that neither one is trapped in Africa -- and please don't send money. How did the criminals find out? Simple phishing. Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage, AK, USA
"As a US Citizen and during the 2008 presidential election, be on the alert of how criminals perform e-mail fraud by pretending to be a real entity. They steal very personal and sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card details and even Social Security Numbers. Before you know it, your identity was stolen and you were a victim of an e-mail and phishing attack," comments Alix Aranza, Managing Director of SPAMfighter North America. Spammers are also targeting e-mail users with malware. A recent spam mail with a malicious attachment was found with the subject "Hillary Clinton Full Video!!!". Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
First it was the community-driven phish reporting site, and now, a people-powered Web filtering service: OpenDNS tomorrow will launch a free, user-powered Web categorization and filtering service in the spirit of its PhishTank site. (See US: Biggest Phishing Host of All.) Registered members of the OpenDNS Web content filtering site (they don't have to be users of the OpenDNS service Dark Reading - New York, NY, USA
However, he thinks it will help curb phishing and spoofing scams. "Nothing will kill spam. So long as there are stupid people to send spam -- E-mail authentication is a process that attempts to identify the sender of a message by verifying the domain name. Industry watchers hoped early on that e-mail authentication would bring an end to spam. But some network experts argue that authentication technology is not strong enough to eliminate all types of spam. E-Commerce Times - USA
While American banks make up the majority of those attacked by so-called "phishing" scams, a report released last week by security company RSA showed that Independent Online - Cape Town, South Africa
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