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RE: [gnso-rap-dt] Am interested in members comments on this article......
- To: "Frederick Felman" <Frederick.Felman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: [gnso-rap-dt] Am interested in members comments on this article......
- From: "James M. Bladel" <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:51:18 -0700
<html><body><span style="font-family:Arial; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;">Is
it possible they've shifted attention to social networks? Because my
statistical sample of "1" indicates that this has spiked
recently.<br><br>J.<br><br><br>
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Subject: Re: [gnso-rap-dt] Am interested in members comments on this<br>
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From: "Frederick Felman" <Frederick.Felman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx><br>
Date: Thu, August 27, 2009 11:13 am<br>
To: "Richard Tindal" <Richard.Tindal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx><br>
Cc: "Marika Konings" <marika.konings@xxxxxxxxx>,<br>
<gnso-rap-dt@xxxxxxxxx><br>
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<div>Traditional spam is down. Something else is afoot.<br><br>Sent from my
iPhone</div><div><br>On Aug 27, 2009, at 8:59 AM, "Richard Tindal" <<a
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wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: 2px
solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div> <div class="Section1">
<h1><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#1f497d"
face="Calibri,sans-serif"> </font>Phishing' drops; are scammers switching
tactics<o:p></o:p></h1> <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 178.5pt;
float: right;" id="content_column_table" border="0" cellpadding="0"
cellspacing="0" width="238"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0in; width: 1pt;"
width="1"></td> <td style="padding: 0in; width: 177.5pt;" width="237">
<div><o:p> </o:p></div> <div>» <a
href="http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/26/AR2009082600867.html";
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://www.sphere.com/search?q=sphereit:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/26/AR2009082600867.html";
title="Related Blogs & Articles">Links to this article</a>
<o:p></o:p></div> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <div><font style="" size="2">By
JORDAN ROBERTSON<o:p></o:p></font></div> <div><font style="" size="2">The
Associated Press <br> Wednesday, August 26, 2009; 6:58 AM
</font><o:p></o:p></div> <div>SAN FRANCISCO -- Internet criminals might be
rethinking a favorite scam for stealing people's personal information.
<o:p></o:p></div> <div>A report being released Wednesday by <a
href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/post200/2007/IBM/"; target="_blank"
mce_href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/post200/2007/IBM/";>IBM Corp.</a>
shows a big drop in the volume of "phishing" e-mails, in which fraud artists
send what looks like a legitimate message from a bank or some other company. If
the recipients click on a link in a phishing e-mail, they land on a rogue Web
site that captures their passwords, account numbers or any other information
they might enter. <o:p></o:p></div> <div>IBM's midyear security report found
that phishing accounted for just 0.1 percent of all spam in the first six
months of this year. In the same period in 2008, phishing made up 0.2 percent
to 0.8 percent of all spam. <o:p></o:p></div> <div>It's not clear what, if
anything, the decline means. (It also doesn't appear to be a statistical
illusion caused by an increase in other kinds of spam. IBM said overall spam
volume hasn't expanded, like it did in years past.) <o:p></o:p></div>
<div>"That is a huge, precipitous decline in the amount of phishing," said Kris
Lamb, director of the X-Force research team in IBM's <a
href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=ISSX&nav=el";
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=ISSX&nav=el";>Internet
Security Systems</a> division, which did the report. But "I wouldn't tell
anybody that phishing has died as a threat." <o:p></o:p></div> <div>Lamb
believes phishing might have fallen off because computer users are getting
smarter about identifying phony Web sites. Security software is also getting
better at filtering out phishing sites before Web surfers ever seen them.
<o:p></o:p></div> <div>It could also be that criminals are moving on from
phishing to another kind of attack, involving malicious software. IBM said it
is seeing more instances of "Trojan horse" programs, which are used to spy on
victims. <o:p></o:p></div> <div>Dean Turner, director of <a
href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=SYMC&nav=el";
target="_blank"
mce_href="http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=SYMC&nav=el";>Symantec
Corp.</a>'s global intelligence network, who was not involved in IBM's
research, said Symantec has also noticed less phishing, but warned that it
could increase again later in the year. Phishing scams spike around the
holidays, he said. <o:p></o:p></div> <div>IBM found that criminals are changing
the types of businesses they attack with phishing. Sixty-six percent of
phishing targets were banks, down from 90 percent last year. Meanwhile,
companies that handle online payments, like PayPal, are being mimicked in
phishing messages more frequently. <o:p></o:p></div> <div>To protect yourself
against phishing, access sensitive sites on your own, rather than by following
links in e-mails, which might lead to phishing sites. <o:p></o:p></div>
<div><font style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";" color="#1f497d"
face="Calibri,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></font></div> </div>
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