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Wall Street Trouble Leads to Rise in Email Scams
MyFox Houston, September 30, 2008 |
| The trouble on Wall Street and in America's banking system has led to a new take on email scams known as "phishing." |
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United 'bankruptcy' points to new stock scam techniques
theregister.co, September 10, 2008 |
| Why use spam to pump and dump when a botnet will do? Market watchers are trying to unravel how a six-year old story suddenly rose to prominence, hammering the share price of United Airlines earlier this week. |
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Online Banking Surge matched by Fraud Attempts
QCK.com, September 3, 2008 |
As the latest banking industry figures report a leap in the number of UK adults banking and using credit cards online, financial data analyst Moneynet warns that fraudsters are becoming ever more determined to perpetrate cyberspace raids on personal finances.
According to the Association of Payment Clearing Services (APACS), credit card fraud alone accounted for £535.2 million in 2007 - the latest figures available. |
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MarkMonitor Reports Continuing Rise in Online Abuse of Top Drug Brands
businesswire.com, August 26, 2008 |
| MarkMonitor ® , the global leader in enterprise brand protection, today released the Summer 2008 Brandjacking Index ™ , reporting that brandjackers increasingly abuse top-ranked pharmaceutical brands, endangering consumers via a supply chain compromised by the sale of questionable prescription drugs through dubious online pharmacies and exchange sites. The report also found that cybersquatting of leading brands has reached an all-time high and that phishers are targeting an increased number of diverse organizations for the first time. |
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Phishing scam dupes hundreds of MobileMe users
Computerworld, August 14, 2008 |
| A recent phishing scam targeting users of Apple Inc. 's .Mac and MobileMe online services has successfully duped hundreds into divulging credit card and other personal information, a security company said today. |
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Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth
Wired.com, July 30, 2008 |
| A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations. |
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Phishing Attacks Are Soaring in UK, Says APACS Report
Security ProPortal.com, July 28, 2008 |
| According to a recent report from UK's payment authority, APACS, as many as 20,682 cases of phishing frauds have been reported in the first half of the year, as compared to 7,224 cases reported for the same period of 2007. |
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On the Front Line
tmcnet.com, July 21, 2008 |
| Few security professionals if any would dispute that organizations are in a constant battle, defending their information systems form attack. The number of new computer system threats increased by nearly 570% from those identified in 2006. According to one 2007 computer security study, the average annual loss reported by U.S. companies increased by nearly 210% to $350,424 (per event) in 2007. |
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Personal fraud and scams cost Australians $1 billion
iTnews, July 1, 2008 |
| A recent report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed that over five per cent of Australians, aged 15 and over, were victims of personal fraud in 2007. The total cost of personal fraud and scams for the same period was nearly $1 billion. |
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