Learn to defend against physical baiting phishing attacks, a stealthy form of cybercrime targeting personal information.
Phishing Attacks: Guide on Hooks
Learn the significance of hooks in phishing attacks and how they lure unsuspecting victims. Learn to protect yourself from online scams.
Preparing for a Phishing Attack: Methods and Precautions
Discover the meticulous preparations involved in a phishing attack and essential precautions to defend against this prevalent cyber threat.
TwitViewer A Possible Phishing Scam
Want to see the last 200 visitors on your Twitter page? Sounds pretty intriguing doesn’t it? But as the old saying goes… "If it looks too good to be true, it probably is".
CAUTION: TwitViewer is a possible phishing scam.
Phishing for Popularity on Twitter
In an effort to build its own popularity, social networking has played largely upon the individual’s craving for popularity. How many friends you have on Facebook, how many followers you have on Twitter, or how many connections you have on LinkedIn can all be perceived as indicators of an individual’s Internet popularity. Just yesterday, a worm hit Twitter that preyed upon such desires.
Unemployed A Big Spam/Phishing Target In 2009
Expect more sophisticated spamming in 2009. And thanks to the economy, an increase in scams targeting the down and out, the tax-rebate hopeful, and the noble yet digitally naïve pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps market.
Big Celebs Hit By Twitter Phishing Attack
Twitter users, take heed: now might be an excellent time to check your Twitter posts for embarrassing messages, and no, we’re not talking whatever might have resulted from your New Year’s Eve celebrations. Instead, such messages seem to be the result of a new and almost astonishingly effective phishing scam.
Gmail Knocking Out Two Big Phishing Threats
PayPal and eBay have long drawn the attention of criminal phishers who try to spoof the companies and steal login information from their customers.
Researchers See Gmail “Spam And Phishing Threat”
So long as it winds up in the trashcan, spam isn’t too much of a problem for end users. Yet security researchers have discovered a way in which spammers could use Gmail to send a massive number of messages straight into inboxes.
OpenID? Try Open To ID Phishing
As major Internet players back OpenID, we were reminded of an Amsterdam computer student pointing out a trio of scenarios that makes the prospect of OpenID’s single sign-on method a scary prospect.