New holiday phishing seam.Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. from scammers is on the increase according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. CyberGuard Corporation Citing reports from the Anti-Phishing Working Group The AntiPhishing Working Group (APWG) is a consortium that brings together businesses affected by phishing attacks, businesses that provide security products and law enforcement. The APWG has more than 2700+ members from more than 1600 companies & agencies worldwide. (APWO) that indicate a 100 percent increase in the number of phishing sites between September and October 2004 CyberGuard, states, 'Between 80 and 100 new phishing Web sites are starting up daily. Scammers are getting much more sophisticated and they are harder for a user to detect. Urging people to beware of e-mails offering holiday deals that seem too good to be true, Henry adds that consumers should be on guard against a particularly nasty new phishing scam (SCSI Configured AutoMatically) A subset of Plug and Play that allows SCSI IDs to be changed by software rather than by flipping switches or changing jumpers. Both the SCSI host adapter and peripheral must support SCAM. See SCSI. this holiday season. While many common phishing cons involve fake e-mails from banks or other financial interests that lead individuals to fake bank sites, consumers should take care when buying holiday gifts online this year because scammers are using fake e-commerce sites. When people search on the Internet for items they want to buy and click on a link, they are directed to a legitimate looking Web page and instructed to "Click here to download images" of what they want to buy. What they can end up downloading is a self-extracting zip file (1) A file that contains one or more files that have been compressed into the ZIP format. Also called a "ZIP archive," "zipped file" or "zipped archive," the ZIP algorithm is the most popular compression method in use. Not Just the . that installs a Trojan on their PC. Trojans can then redirect links to legitimate financial institutions to fraudulent Web sites allowing the scammer to harvest the user's credentials. www.cyberguard.com |
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