The Danwon district of Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, saw the highest number of crimes committed by foreign nationals last year, according to a survey released Sunday. Danwon police reported 1,173 crimes committed by foreigners between January last year

Phishing on the rise amid credit crunch - Business24-7
Cybercrimes and phishing, or emails aimed at stealing your online banking passwords, are on the rise following the global financial meltdown. A report by MessageLabs, a security services company, has revealed that phishing attacks rose 16 per cent

Lack of phishing attacks data sharing puts $300M at stake annually - ZDNet Blogs
To share phishing URLs, or not to share? That s the rhetorical question, since sharing ultimately serves the final customer and ensures a lower average time for a phishing site to remain online. In a recently published research ( The consequence of

In desperate times, scammers pounce - Los Angeles Times
The economic meltdown is not devoid of economic opportunities. There’s one group of folks who might do just fine: scammers. Security experts have spotted an increase in phishing, the scam that uses fake e-mails to get people to hand over personal

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent - Silicon.com
Phishing email attacks on the UK have gone up by 200 per cent this year, the UK payments association Apacs has warned. Apacs said consumers must be vigilant after the number of reported incidents shot up by more than 10,000 during the first quarter

BBB issues warning about online phishing schemes - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
The Better Business Bureau of the South Plains Inc. is alerting customers and businesses of a phishing scheme involving e-mail messages and blog posts that encourage the registration of software with the BBB. “The messages and posts are most likely

Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat - Silicon.com
The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company’s security chief has revealed. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, Max Kelly said the attacks have become serious

The computer helper: Don’t get scammed - Feature - Earthtimes
Washington - Online scammers are out in full force these days. They’ll try to dupe you by e-mail or through websites. And they typically want one of two things: your money or your personal information. To make sure you don’t give them either, you

UK banks targeted by phishing attacks - Silicon.com
From antivirus to zero-day , click here for silicon.com’s alphabetical guide to security . The attacks could mark the emergence of a new threat from the Storm botnet, according to a report from security company RSA’s Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC

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