Spear Phishing

Dan Swinhoe provides examples of targeted "spear " phishing.

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Anti-Phishing Apps for the iPhone

Johnny Evans promotes anti-phishing apps for the iphone .

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Smishing and Phishing

Rhea Kelly exposes the "click rates" of those exposed to phishing attacks in education and retail. She also defines "smishing", attacks using SMS technology.

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Whaling or Wailing?

Katherine Noyes explains to accountants the dangers of "whaling " cyber attacks.

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Nasty Phishing Attacks

Roger Grimes warns that phishing attacks are nastier than ever - and lists ten reasons why.

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Phishing Is Hard to Detect

Patrick Nelson notes that users have a difficult time detecting phishing , but are more adept at recognizing malware. This knowledge may help software engineers provide clues when potential malware is detected by the system.

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Phishing

Steve Ragan reports on how to spot a phishing attack .

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Phishing Tactics

Ellen Messmer describes "Phishing Tactics and How Attackers Get Away With It."   This report is full of statistics about the volume and nationality of phishing attacks.

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Text (SMS) Phishing

Linda Musthaler writes on How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of SMiShing (SMS phishing) . According to Musthaler "SMS spam campaigns in the U.S. grew by 400 percent in the first half of 2012, and about one-third of all SMS spam includes SMiShing attempts."

According to Michael Cooney's March 7 report in NetworkWorld, the FTC has charged eight companies with sending millions of phishing messages through text messaging.

Joan Goodchild recently wrote an article providing examples of phishing attempts.   Kenneth van Wyk offers some specific advice for avoiding threats in his article "Staying out of the Belly of Internet Beasts" (registration may be required to access this free article).

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