The increased focus of cyber criminals to conduct financial
phishing attacks means users need to remain extra vigilant.
According to Sjouwerman, "Ninety-eight percent of cyber-attacks rely on social engineering and email
phishing is the bad guys' preferred method.
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Phishing Scams: FBI Says Businesses Have Lost $5 Billion In
Phishing, Social Engineering Attacks
The research presented in this paper was assembled to demonstrate the relationship between phishers and defacers, using the domains and timestamps in which
phishing and defacement websites were reported.
Phishing attacks are classified in terms of attack methodology.
com has been the most popular cover for
phishing attacks exploiting the names of online stores.
Organizations can now successfully combat
phishing with ease.
The average number of victims of a
phishing site are just 10 and these sites exist for not more than 8-10 hours on average.
Another type of
phishing attack is the so-called crisis-
phishing.
The security industry is continuously updating itself to fight off the
phishing schemes and in Brazil and the UK, three men were arrested and jailed for their
phishing schemes this year.
A typical
phishing sends out millions of fraudulent e-mail messages that appear to come from popular Web sites that most users trust, such as eBay, Citibank, AOL, Microsoft and the FDIC.
In 2004,
phishing attacks were up 4,000%, costing consumers up to $1.
LEGISLATION TO MAKE INTERNET
phishing a crime was lost in the shuffle and failed to win passage in Congress last year but will have another chance with lawmakers in 2005.
McAfee Inc (NYSE: MFE), a provider of intrusion prevention products, has announced that McAfee SpamKiller for Mail Servers, McAfee SpamKiller for SecurityShield, McAfee Managed Mail Protection and McAfee SpamKiller appliances now include a new set of rules which detect
phishing with up to 99% accuracy.
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-2 December 2004-McAfee includes
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