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"A campaign’s ability to understand the Internet and protect itself is directly proportional to its investment in staff who understand it," said Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Web site TechPresident.com. "They don’t even think of it," he said, adding that the lack of precautions is a "symptom" of how poorly the Net is understood in [...]

Yahoo’s Domain Keys allows e-mail providers to validate an e-mail’s originating domain, making the use of blacklists and whitelists much more effective. Domain Keys also makes phishing attacks easier to detect by helping to identify abusive domains. The technology is so promising that in May 2007, the IETF adopted it as a proposed standard.

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Authorities in several countries have cracked down on Nigerian e-mail scammers, resulting in the seizure of over $2.1 billion in fraudulent checks. The National Consumers League, in conjunction with the US Postal Inspection Service, announced yesterday that 77 arrests have been made in connection with the scams. Those arrested were from Nigeria, the Netherlands, and [...]

The elusive "Rock Phish" group continues to be innovative. The group appears to have started using the so-called "fast flux" method to fool researchers and elude detection, according to new security research. Cambridge University security researchers Richard Clayton and Tyler Moore tracked 30,000 phishing reports that came in through Phish Tank, a clearing house that [...]

Virus levels down in Australia but spam surging again according to MessageLabs. Global virus and phishing scams significantly increased in September reaching levels not seen since 2006 despite reduced figures in Australia.

Another phishing attack plays upon the greed of people, this time in the form of a tax refund. More than two dozen domains discovered by McAfee pose as official IRS sites offering the windfall. Don’t you believe it. The form presented on the phishing site asks for so much information, we don’t know whether to [...]

Message Labs has issued its September Intelligence report, showing the threats through e-mails, viruses and spam. The results display an increase in all three, with one in 48.8 e-mails containing malware. As many of us have noticed, the malware isn’t in an attachment in many cases, but in a link within the e-mail, to an [...]

Fraudsters have begun garnishing phishing emails with claims that punters need to respond in order to enrol in the Verified by Visa programme. Verified by Visa is a legitimate service that adds an additional layer of security to online credit card transactions. Anyone using a card enrolled in the programme needs to use a password [...]