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Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Researchers at Microsoft have discovered that most phishing scams bring in little to no money. Their study blames this on the oversaturation factor. Just as overfishing has caused a deep decline in certain fish populations, the sheer number of phishing scammers seeking maximum returns has resulted in “overgrazing.” The other problem facing them is that [...]

Source:Study Shows Phishers Don’t Really Catch Much

Learn about phishing and how pattern based filters are an organization’s best defense against this pervasive security threat.

Source:Phishing quickly becoming IT's number one network security threat.

Up to 80% of spam targeted at Internet users in North America and Europe is generated by a hard-core group of around 100 known professional spam gangs whose names, aliases and operations are documented in Spamhaus’ Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database.
ROKSO is a “3 Strikes” register. To be listed in ROKSO a spammer [...]

Source:ROKSO Lists 10 Most Wanted Spammers

Ars Technica is reporting that a customer of Classmates.com, a people finding and social networking service, is suing them for sending deceptive emails that trick people into signing up for their paid service. Here’s an excerpt:
          “Your former classmates are trying to contact you! Upgrade now to see their messages!” That’s the pitch many of [...]

Source:Classmates.com Sued Over Deceptive Emails

Over the last few months I’ve noticed a resurgence of e-card spam scam from our unfriendly neighborhood spammers.
According to security expert Bill Mullins, in the last year, email inboxes have being swamped with similar scamming emails from fraudulent sites like Greetings.com, and 2000Greetings.com, amongst others.
This time around, the domain name being used by these scammers [...]

Source:Fake Greeting Card Emails Resurface