Posts Tagged ‘Phishing’

Phishing is when you receive emails that look like they are coming from your bank, Paypal, ebay or credit card company, but are in fact fake. www.IDTheftSecurity.com

Phishing is growing at an alarming rate this video describes how easy it is to create a site that looks like another site to steal your Identity

Skimming, phishing, pharming
A leading academic says identity theft is on the increase using a number of new techniques.

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Invisible Keyboard Loggers is the new technology used in phishing scams to steal your identity and credit card information in the background as you navigate the web or read your email. In today’s databased world and convenience driven consumer services online is not a question of wether you are prepared in the event your identity is compromised but will you be ready when it happens to you or your loved one. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include – (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Warning Serious Internet Explorer Sinowal Torpig Mebroot Exploit/Phishing scam That Microsoft Doesn’t know About There is a serious exploit in Internet Explorer that everyone must know about as soon as possible. I used a debugging program which is a program created by Microsoft that allows programmers to see the pages/URLS/IP addresses when Internet Explorer connects to the internet. I ran the software and visited these sites and I noticed a strange IP that was being accessed every time I went to paypal, Bank of America or Ebay and any site with forms that you input user and pass or CC info. I did a whois on the IP address that was coming up and contacted the ISP with screenshots of the exploit. I then called the ISP if they could help determine what the problem was. After reviewing it, they confirmed that this was some sort of hacker account that was gathering information. So it turns out the IE exploit is using an advanced phishing scam that is gathering information from the sites asking for credit card information and sending it to these IP addresses. But beware it grabs data you enter in regular forms and the everything looks normal thats what makes this so dangerous. They immediately shut down the hosting account with that IP that was sending information to. They confirmed that this was being used for hackers gathering phishing information. Because of privacy laws they could not give me any information of the owner of the hosting account, but they did confirm the …

Phishing scams are a kind of semantic attack on computer systems that target the users of computer systems, rather than the system itself. Phishing is estimated to have cost over $3 billion in losses in 2008, with criminals impersonating banks, e-commerce sites, retail sites, and universities to trick people into giving them passwords or credit card information. Phishing attacks have also been used to steal sensitive information from corporations and governments, including the US Department of Defense. This talk will present ongoing research in protecting people from phishing attacks. To see more videos from the University of Washington visit uwtv.org.

Officials warn of ‘phishing’ scams targeting troops
Officials are urging renewed vigilance against Internet-based identity theft after detecting a widespread “phishing” expedition against servicemembers.

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The original video is presented at seo.mhvt.net with a resolution of 900 x 675 pixels. An international cyber scum group circulated 2 copies of a phishing e-mail message for the past 5 hours targeting French PayPal users. The phishing website is possibly hosted by a French web hosting company. The phishing website is currently running to steal credit card information.

KSP Warns Against “Phishing” Phone Calls
State Police are encouraging citizens of Boyd, Carter, Greenup and Lawrence Counties in Kentucky to be aware of these scams and not give out information.

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Identity Thieves you are being tracked and your days are numbered. Find out how thieves are stealing US Citizens blind. Go to gonein2seconds.com To protect yourself and family.