Archive for July 2004
28% of U.S. Adults Continue to Inaccurately Identify Phishing Email Scams, how do you score?, take the phishing IQ test
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A new poll suggests that the hatred isn’t as universal as thought. According to a Yahoo Mail global survey of 3,100 Internet users, 20 percent of U.S. residents report buying products from spammers and upward of 30 percent have responded to spam.
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The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003: A Six-Month Progress Report
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An experiment started in February that entailed the hidden placement of spam-baiting e-mail addresses on government web sites
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A small US company by the name of Corillian announced in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month of a system designed to detect phishing sites days before fradulent emails are sent out.
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As email becomes saturated with phishing scams and awareness rises it was only a matter of time before alternate methods of communication became the target of phishing scams. Beware of Instant Messages bearing ‘gifts’.
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Usenet is currently being spammed with messages from fake journalists enticing users to a site apparently showing pictures of the suicide of Osama Bin Laden
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According to Microsoft officials, the Redmond giant will begin to implement SPF ( https://spf.pobox.com/ ) or Sender ID checking to it’s spam fighting efforts on Hotmail, Microsoft.com and MSN.com.
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Has MasterCard gone on a phishing trip, leaving the back door wide open
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In the wake of MasterCard and NameProtect’s recent PR hype announcing their aggressive drive to fight fraud on the web, this dynamic duo seem to have missed some all too basic gaps in their own security.
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