Phishing

Phishing Spam Threats in 2013: Infographic

January 12, 2013

Email scams get more sophisticated and persuasive with every new generation of cyber thieves. Business Week estimated in 2012 that phishing scams cost victims about $320 million annually. Although the number of people who fall victim is very small (less than one percent of all who use online banking, according to another source), the criminals [...]

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Avoid the Twitter Direct Message DM Phishing Attack – Don’t Click or Enter Passwords

February 20, 2010

Twitter is experiencing a Direct Message Phishing Attack as people fall for a fake Direct Message with an innocuous looking “LOL – is this you?” and a link to a fake site – “LOL – This is funny” DM’s with links pointing to equally innocuous looking web sites, with a query string appended which is [...]

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