Take phishing scams, for example - more and more banks are putting out advisories warning customers not to be taken in by the scam emails and the more consumers are aware, the less chance there is they'll be taken in by the criminals.
This was illustrated by the Anti-Phishing Working Group's report, which found that eBay has been superseded by Citibank as the company targeted most often by phishing scams. Phishing is an internet scam where official-looking emails attempt to fool...
Mark Sunner, CTO of MessageLabs, said: "Botnets are the primary delivery mechanism for around 70 per cent of spam and almost all phishing scams. A spokesman for CyberTrust said phishing scams have existed for years, but attributes the sudden rise...
Police have launched a crackdown on an online identity theft scam targeting businesses registered with Companies House that is estimated to rake in more than £50m a year. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has now launched an initiative with...
Leading the charge are far more finely tuned phishing scams and the snowballing menace of spyware. And such scams, travelling in far smaller numbers are far harder to detect. Whereas security threats were once synonymous with a subtlety akin to...
This year even shadow home secretary David Davis will be joining the directors of the FBI, US Secret Service, Nato and the likes of PayPal, Lloyds TSB and Unilever to reflect on a shared problem that threatens the world's most advanced economies.