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Internet 'Phishing' Scams Getting More Devious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian G)
Wed Jan 26 19:49:54 2005
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:50:23 +0000
From: Ian G <iang@systemics.com>
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Financial Cryptography Update: Internet 'Phishing' Scams Getting More
Devious
January 21, 2005
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There are about 10 articles a day on phishing, so I don't read them.
What else is there to say that hasn't been said since years ago?
Including the fact that it gets better and better, it's enough to drive
a security guy to drink. Anyway, here's a good summary article to set
a flag on the date, and an even briefer summary paragraph:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20050119/tc_nm/tech_phishing_dc
57 million americans, 122 "brands", organised crime, DNS redirection
attacks, half based on spyware, convergance, get a hardware token, and
this corker of a closing argument:
"Internet engineers should also figure out a way to authenticate Web
addresses, much as they are currently figuring out how to make sure
e-mail addresses are legitimate, he said."
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