Google Teams up With eBay and PayPal to Combat Phishing (ReadWriteWeb)
Google today announced that it has teamed up with eBay and PayPal to fight phishing scams more effectively. Starting today, Google will authenticate every email that claims to be from 'paypal.com' or 'ebay.com.' If a message fails these checks, Google will reject the message and not, as it often did before, allow it through and display a warning message. PayPal and eBay phishing scams are ...
Gmail moves to block phishers (Web-User)
Tuesday 8th July 2008 An update to Google Mail should stop phishing emails ever reaching your Inbox, the company claims. Full story.. MEPs back new piracy laws Tuesday 8th July 2008 European politicians have approved amendments to a controversial set of laws that would harmonise internet policy across the continent.
Internet customers warned about fraudulent email ‘spoofing’ Shentel support (The Warren Sentinel)
The email is not from Shentel, said David Ferguson, Vice President of Customer Services. “We would never send an email to our customers asking for user names or passwords or any type of personal identification.
South Africa: SMS Phishing On the Increase (AllAfrica.com)
Companies that communicate with their customers using SMS could leave those same customers wide open to phishing, the fraudulent attempt to collect personal or banking details.
HSBC sites vulnerable to XSS flaws, could aid phishing attacks (ZDNet)
What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank's web application directory structure is in fact using the bank's legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It's even more interesting to measure the average...
