South Coast Today - It’s very hard all the time to catch these people,” he said, adding data breaches occur mostly by what is known as phishing (obtaining sensitive information by masquerading as trustworthy entity) and spam e-mails. In many instances, “these people” are

Spyware remains very real threat
Portsmouth Herald - You may have heard of phishing e-mail. These are e-mail messages that look legitimate and attempt to get you to do something that will compromise your computer. An example of this might be an e-mail that appears to be from your bank and asks you to

Hackers Break Into Top Government Research Lab
FOX News - The practice is called “phishing.” The first fake e-mail arrived Oct. 29. At least six more waves followed. “At first glance, they appeared legitimate,” Mason wrote. One notified employees of a scientific conference. Another pretended to notify the

NYPIRG helps holiday shoppers protect their identities
Mid-Hudson News Network - check fraud, fraudulent charities and other common online scams. CyberStreetSmart.org also includes sections dedicated to helping shoppers and auction site users steer clear of con artists, as well as sections on identity theft and email phishing

Consumers warned about holiday ID theft
News Herald - phishing” scam that has surfaced recently, threatening to expose consumers personal financial information. McCollum noted that occurrences of identity theft often increase during the holiday season and encouraged residents and guests to be extra

Make My Day
American Reporter - In the last year or so, a new word found it’s way into our jargon: “phishing.” This is mail, whether electronic or postal, but nevertheless, usually an inquiry about a credit account. The last four digits of your charge account number is typed in

Passport Canada lets all kinds of data through
Computerworld Australia - Not that a phishing expert who knew what he was doing would care, of course. It would probably be possible, in fact, to automate the collection of such temporary files. Still, Passport Canada says it has taken steps to make sure it doesn’t happen

Justin Timberlake hacked by young pretender
SC Magazine - It is likely hackers are using cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and phishing scams to perpetrate these attacks, which mostly are occurring on music pages that are heavily trafficked and contain dynamic content, Boyd said. The administrator for

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