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Friday, September 28, 2007

Can you spot a phish?; PhishFilet catches malicious e-mails at the network level

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Network World's Anti-spam News Alert, 09/28/07

Can you spot a phish? Play Carnegie Mellon’s game and see, 09/25/07: A Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student has developed an online game to educate Internet users about phishing threats.

Antiphishing feature added to Engate e-mail security, 09/27/07: Engate Technology today announced a version of its antispam software that the company says includes the industry’s first preemptive protection against phishing attacks.

EBay: Phishing likely to blame for members' data theft, 09/27/07: EBay's security experts have determined that it's highly likely that whoever posted confidential information about its members in a company discussion forum this week stole the data via an e-mail phishing scam, an eBay spokeswoman said Thursday.

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PayPal claims gains against phishers, 09/20/07: PayPal security chief Michael Barrett isn't ready to claim a victory in the fight against phishing schemes, but he said that his company is slowly turning the tide using a set of new partnerships and technological means.

What are you concerned about?, 09/20/07: In a survey we conducted this summer, we asked messaging decision makers about a variety of issues in the context of how concerned they are about these issues compared to this time last year. Here’s what we found, ranked in order of the percentage of decision makers that are more concerned about particular issues than last year at this time:

Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages, 09/26/07: Accounts on Google's Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future e-mail messages -- to be forwarded to the attacker's own inbox, a vulnerability researcher said Tuesday.

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