One bank in my town has stopped offering Internet banking, and suddenly I feel I can see the future post-phishing. Of course, the bank is not saying it’s abandoning Internet banking. Nor is it saying that the fact that now customers have to dial into a modem in the bank to access their account is… Read More »
Good piece in this month’s US Banker magazine on phishing. Some tidbits: Phishing is getting more and more sophisticated. I’ve detailed some of those tricks in this blog, but here’s one I hadn’t heard of: Crooks [the unfortunately named Ted Crooks, vp of identity protection solutions at Fair Isaac] says that “the level of cleverness… Read More »
It had to happen some time. Phishing victims are fighting back — against their banks. A Miami Businessman is sueing Bank of America according to AccountingWEB.com and other sources: Joe Lopez, a Miami businessman who regularly conducts business over the Internet, is suing Bank of America for negligence and failure to provide protection for online banking… Read More »
Not sure if this is new but I’ve not seen it before: A clever new piece of social engineering in a phishing email. You have added phoneseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal account. If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact PayPal customer… Read More »
I’m not a huge fan of Christmas greetings via email, but then again I’m useless at sending cards too, so I’m not a good person to talk about this. But while I’m guessing the online Christmas card industry is not doing very well this year because of phishing (there have been more than a few… Read More »