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Researchers fight phishing attacks with phishing tactics
Early findings by Carnegie Mellon University researchers suggest that people who are suckered by a spoof email into visiting a counterfeit Web site are also people who are ready to learn their lesson about “phishing” attacks.
94 percent of spam-advertised online scams are hosted on individual Web servers
Computer scientists from UC San Diego have found striking differences between the infrastructure used to distribute spam and the infrastructure used to host the online scams advertised in these unwanted email messages. This discovery should aid in the fight to reduce spam volume and shut down illegal online businesses and malware sites.
Online shoppers will pay extra to protect privacy, study shows
People are willing to pay extra to buy items from online retailers when they can easily ascertain how retailers’ policies will protect their privacy, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.
Phishers can use social Web sites as bait to net victims
Internet sites such as MySpace and Facebook are popular ways for friends to stay in touch, but they also can be used by cyber sharks posing as "friends," enabling them to steal personal and financial information.
Microsoft-Yahoo: Which Products Would Win
While the chance of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger or acquisition is a remote one, it's still a possibility. In analysis compiled from several PC Magazine staff members and analysts, here's what a merger might mean to the products and technologies directly shared by each company. In each case, we've outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each, and attempted to predict what technologies would survive the backroom planning sessions, and what would be discarded. This story was written by Mark Hachman.
Spam filter design to benefit from internet routing data
A database of more than 10 million spam email messages collected at just one Internet "spam sinkhole" suggests that Internet service providers could better fight unwanted junk email by addressing it at the network level, rather than using currently available message content filters.
Latest weapons in spam battle are images
Like all wars, the campaign against junk e-mail -- spam -- is marked along the way with victories and casualties. It's an "ever-escalating battle," the senior director of marketing at anti-spam company Commtouch, Rebecca Herson, told United Press International in a telephone interview.
New weapons needed for the war on junk email
Today's spam filters are highly effective, but they may be no match for spammers seeking new ways to fool people into visiting commercial websites or downloading rogue software carrying viruses, worms, spyware, or other dangerous applications, says John Aycock, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Calgary.