US senators have introduced a new “Spy Block” bill designed to target deceptive spyware tactics. Thus far such laws have been only partially successful but we can hope right?
Word has it that the latest target of scammers is Internet phones, which are used via techniques like senderID spoofing to collect credit card numbers from unsuspecting customers, (by pretending to be banks for example). The low cost of Internet VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) makes this sort of thing almost as cheap as SPAM. I guess we can call this “Phoice” scams? (Phishing over voice).
In related news, Phishing attacks in general are on the rise, Symantec says that one in every two hundred emails was a phishing scam and 60% of mail was SPAM between the months of July and December last year. From our own server statistics, I’d say that about matches what we’ve found here also. Phishing is the process where users are lured to a fake website (usually a copy of a banks website) in the hopes of stealing their username/password for the real site.
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