Nice article I’ve found on Infoworld.com about the evaluation of phishing and its latest appearance in form of spear phishing (the method Megapanzer is used). Fraudsters hone their attacks with spear phishing In my previous column, I said that the No. 1 way to reduce IT security risks in your organization is to “simply” prevent [...]

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Yesterday on www.lightbluetouchpaper.org. Online transactions with credit cards or debit cards are increasingly verified using the 3D Secure system, which is branded as “Verified by VISA” and “MasterCard SecureCode”. This is now the most widely-used single sign-on scheme ever, with over 200 million cardholders registered. It’s getting hard to shop online without being forced to [...]

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According to an article on The Register phishing is more than just popular. Again it touches former upper limits and reached a new record high in the second quartal of 2009. Really hard to believe this technique still works after so many years telling people not to double-click mail attachments. It seems to be something [...]

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