phishing

A very special and dangerous fishing expedition.

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If you are approached, via instant messaging or via email, for any personal information, there's a good chance you're a potential victim of "phishing."

Phishing is the act of casting about on the Internet to try and steal your personal information: names, addresses, social security numbers, usernames and passwords and more. To do so, phishers will create very official looking email messages from banks, ISP's like AOL, PayPal, eBay and others. The phisher's email usually claims that unless you click on a link in the email and log on to the site to correct your information, that your account will be cancelled (or some other dire consequence).

The problem: the link goes not to the actual bank or service site, but to a look-a-like site that simply asks you to sign in - with a fake form that is a direct path to the criminal's data collector. Once you've given up your username and password (and maybe other information on that fake sign-in form), you're thenredirected to the real site, and your information has been successfully "phished."

Do not respond to any email or instant message that asks you to sign in and correct anything. Sites will ask you when you sign in on your own to make account corrections.

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Protect yourself and your children from spam, spoofing, cyber-bullying, phishing, hacking and predators with the practical advice in Internet Safety and Your Family. Today, when most kids have 24/7 access to the Internet, we need to think about more than pornography filters and Facebook. As important, what risks are we adults creating---and what risks are we vulnerable to? With seemingly everything online today, and possibly archived forever, we may unknowingly creating opportunities for identify theft, stalking and worse when we post a photo to a social networking site or add a comment to a blog. This practical guide prepares you to make choices about your family's Internet use. Based on material recommended by the Seattle Police Department and child protection agencies, it is also designed to help schools meet the National Educational Technology Standards.

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Phishing: Cutting the Identity Theft Line
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"Phishing" is the hot new identity theft scam. An unsuspecting victim receives an e-mail that seems to come from a bank or other financial institution, and it contains a link to a Web site where s/he is asked to provide account details. The site looks legitimate, and 3 to 5 percent of people who receive the e-mail go on to surrender their information-to crooks. One e-mail monitoring organization reported 2.3 billion phishing messages in February 2004 alone.

If that weren't enough, the crooks have expanded their operations to include malicious code that steals identity information without the computer user's knowledge. Thousands of computers are compromised each day, and phishing code is increasingly becoming part of the standard exploits.
Written by a phishing security expert at a top financial institution, this unique book helps IT professionals respond to phishing incidents. After describing in detail what goes into phishing expeditions, the author provides step-by-step directions for discouraging attacks and responding to those that have already happened.

In Phishing, Rachael Lininger:

Offers case studies that reveal the technical ins and outs of impressive phishing attacks. Presents a step-by-step model for phishing prevention. Explains how intrusion detection systems can help prevent phishers from attaining their goal-identity theft. Delivers in-depth incident response techniques that can quickly shutdown phishing sites.

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Title: Anti-Phishing Bill likely to be reintroduced in Congress.(Tech Trends)
Author: Matt Brady
Publication: National Underwriter Life & Health (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 7, 2005
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
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Title: El phishing: segunda y última entrega.
Author: Agustín Astorga
Publication: E Semanal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 2, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Author: Reid Goldsborough
Publication: Community College Week (Newspaper)
Date: November 20, 2006
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