Hackers are increasingly attempting to influence search engines to misdirect users to spurious Web sites. Last week, software security firm Marshal highlighted the phishing-attack problem and the role of search engine optimization (SEO) in a blog

Phishing scam targets Southern Indiana bank - Wave 3
CORYDON, IN (WAVE) - First Harrison Bank is one of the latest targets in a telephone phishing scam. Since Saturday concerned customers and non-customers alike have flooded the lines, after getting a strange call about their bank card. “Today we

A phishing scheme may have exposed 700 Comcast customers - Beta News
A document that appeared on the online sharing service Scribd appeared to show thousands of comcast.net accounts, along with their passwords. It was probably posted there as a display of somebody’s phishing prowess, though it would appear it took two

Spam, Phishing And Spyware Pose Threats To Cybersecurity - Post Chronicle
Federal agencies are facing emerging cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex and damaging forms. Examples of these threats include

Romanian cops cuff 20 phishing suspects - The Register
Romania police arrested 20 suspected phishing fraud suspects on Wednesday. Stefan Negrila, chief of the organised crime police in the western Romanian city of Timisoara, said the alleged hackers set up counterfeit banking websites that they used to

23 per cent of users fall for spear phishing - Securecomputing.net.au
Information security consultancy The Intrepidus Group analysed the results of 32 mock-phishing scenarios against 69,000 employees around the world, CEO Rohyt Belani told SCMagazineUS.com. Belani presented findings of the study during this week’s

New study details the dynamics of successful phishing - ZDNet Blogs
In a recently presented study by the Intrepidus Group , the company behind the PhishMe.com spear phishing awareness service allowing companies to ethically attempt to phish their employees on their way to build security awareness, presents some

Spot the Tiny Phishing Trick - PC World
The TinyURL service allows you to enter a long URL, such as one for a particular Google Maps location, and convert it into a short, easy-to-type or e-mail link. Good for sending links - or as Trend Micro reports, for hiding a malicious Web site URL

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