It seems that some of the ‘Russian mafia’ involved in phishing scams in Australia are being rounded up at last. The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Saturday (no URL available, here’s the Google cache of the story) that police there have arrested two men, one a 21-year-old Moscow-born Sydney resident, and the other a “22-year-old Southport man, formerly… Read More »
Interesting to see how phishing has become a threat in its own right, along with viruses and spam, and is becoming part and parcel of ‘security solutions’ offered by the Internet messaging industry. Take MailFrontier, for example, the Palo Alto-based “pioneer in email security and leading provider of anti-spam solutions” who today announced , today… Read More »
Does there come a point in the phishing-dominated world where folk like eBay should just stop sending out emails, and tell customers that’s what they’re doing? I got an email from eBay this morning. I don’t remember getting one before, but I may have, or else my spam filter discarded it. It sure looked like… Read More »
Wiltshire’s finest are now onto phishing scams, thanks to the head of the county’s fraud squad receiving one himself. World Entertainment News Network (no URL available) Sunday quoted Detective Inspector Paul Ginger of the Wiltshire police as saying : “I was amazed to receive one of these messages on my work email”, adding: “You have to… Read More »
Phishing has made it inadvisable for institutions like banks and financial sites to use email to communicate with customers. Doing so would just confuse them more and raise the likelihood they would be fooled by a phish. But what about ordinary institutions like schools and colleges? The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported earlier this week (payment… Read More »