How to identify phishing scams:Protection against phishing [Digg] 

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What is phishing?PhishingIn the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.Rate of phishing scams are increasing day by dayWhat does a phishing scam look like?Phishing e-mail messages take a number

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It is time to update the phishing protection article that we published some time ago (see Phishing explained) with the recent news that thousands of Hotmail users (and apparently Gmail users as well) fell pray to yet another phishing scam. What is phishing? Phishing, which stands for password fishing, is a popular technique to [...]

Help the fight against phishing with Phishtank  

For anti-phishing tools to work, phishing sites must be identified to analyse and to warn people about. Sites like Web of Trust allow users to share information about phishing sites, but scores of similar tools exist and as it would be counter-productive for each to maintain their own database of phishing sites. PhishTank centralises phishing reports and [...]

What is spear phishing?  

While the term has been around since at least 2006, I hadn’t heard it before and I guess that others haven’t either. So what is “spear phishing”? Spear phishing, also known as whaling, is just a targeted form of phishing. Normal phishing usually involves an email message with a link to the login interface of what [...]