Just as phishing is getting noticed as a big problem, so a raft of solutions is appearing on the horizon. Here’s another: PassMarks. Here’s how it works. When a customer logs on to his banking website, a personalized image known only to the customer and the bank appears. If the customer doesn’t see the passmark… Read More »
I, and quite a few of the folk I correspond with, have been using what looks on the surface to be a great new feature of the Internet: Services that turn an unwieldy link into a short one. Enter the link you want to send someone into their website and it will create a unique… Read More »
For as long as phishing is a problem, I believe banks have got to rethink their Internet strategies. In short, any email sent from a bank or other affected online institution leaves customers vulnerable. For example: Citibank, one of the worst hit banks, still send out emails to their customers. Their Internet privacy page in… Read More »
Somewhat embarrassingly for Taiwan’s education system, a phishing email aimed at customers of US Bank operaties via a script which appears to be on a computer at the Taiwan Ministry of Education Computer Center in Taipei. MillerSmiles Scam Alert Service reports that the phish urges recipients to access a new message in their personal mailbox… Read More »
Phishing emails don’t need to be sophisticated to lure the unwary. Indeed, there’s some evidence those behind the more convincing looking emails masquerading as bank emails are also behind a spate of key-logging trojans, which use basic methods to fool the recipient into making them active. Australian Daniel McNamara of anti-phishing website Code Fish has… Read More »