Banks have failed customers over credit card fraud; why should they do any better over phishing? Further to my piece on how banks had failed customers over phishing by continuing to communicate with them by email and failing to warn customers about possible breaches of security, here’s an example from the world of credit card… Read More »
It seems that some of the ‘Russian mafia’ involved in phishing scams in Australia are being rounded up at last. The Gold Coast Bulletin reported Saturday (no URL available, here’s the Google cache of the story) that police there have arrested two men, one a 21-year-old Moscow-born Sydney resident, and the other a “22-year-old Southport man, formerly… Read More »
Wiltshire’s finest are now onto phishing scams, thanks to the head of the county’s fraud squad receiving one himself. World Entertainment News Network (no URL available) Sunday quoted Detective Inspector Paul Ginger of the Wiltshire police as saying : “I was amazed to receive one of these messages on my work email”, adding: “You have to… Read More »
Beware The Fear. The blizzard of coverage about phishing (usually involving some awful pun) has done a lot to raise awareness about the problem, but is it enough? A survey by Insight Express for Symantec of 300 people (no URL available yet, sorry) shows that while three quarters of folk are aware of spyware only… Read More »
Could RFID tags be used by shoplifters? Robert Lemos of CNET’s News.com writes from Las Vegas that a German technology consultant believes the Radio Frequency Identification tags “could be abused by hackers and tech-savvy shoplifters”. He quotes Lukas Grunwald, a senior consultant with DN-Systems Enterprise Internet Solutions GmbH, as telling a discussion at the Black… Read More »