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Big Bank Customers Targeted by Internet Scammers

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Customers of big banks, beware. You might be surfing the Web with a bull’s-eye on your browser. That’s because Internet scam artists have targeted the customers of large financial institutions for their nefarious efforts. The technique used by the grifters is a cyberspace version of the old bait-and-switch tactic that in the Internet age could…

Internet Fraud Complaints Rise 60 Percent in 2003

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The past year was a good year for bad guys on the Web. Fraud complaints surged 60 percent to 120,000 from 75,000 a year ago, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in Fairmont, West Virginia. The Center, which changed its name last week from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, maintains a database on Internet…

Tumbleweed’s Ken Beer on E-Mail Authentication

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing amounts of bandwidth. According to a report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, an estimated 50 percent of all e-mail…

Fine-Tuning Spam Filtering

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Because the volume of spam has increased from about 10 percent of all e-mail in 2001 to more than 50 percent today, corporations and ISPs have been trying to find ways to keep the junk mail from overwhelming users’ inboxes. Filtering products, which rely on several techniques to separate needed messages from unwanted solicitations, have…

Survey Finds Spammers Embracing Sender Authentication

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sender authentication might work as a club to beat down phishing attacks on Web denizens, but it does little to fight spam. That’s the finding of a study released this week by CipherTrust, a messaging security firm in Atlanta. On the basis of analyzing some two million messages received between May and August by more…

Report Shows Uptick in Automated Phishing

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Security experts are warning that automated software and compromised computers used to pass on malicious e-mail or host rogue, information-stealing Web sites are feeding fraud on the Internet. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a consortium of security experts looking to analyze the online fraud known as phishing — whereby users are directed via e-mail to…

Ken Beer of Tumbleweed on E-Mail Authentication

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Spam and its evil offshoot, phishing, have become growing problems on the Internet. Not only has spam become a nuisance with its frequently offensive subject matter, but it is consuming increasing amounts of bandwidth. According to a report released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, an estimated 50 percent of all e-mail…

Confab to Promote E-Mail Authentication

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

E-mail authentication — considered by many spam fighters as an important first step in reducing unsolicited correspondence on the Internet — will be the focus of a summit conference to be held in New York City next Tuesday. The day-long confab at the Marriott Marquis will be moderated by Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0,…

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