Recent Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks are emails and other electronic communications that try to trick you into revealing personal information such as account numbers, passwords, social security numbers, etc. This info is then used for credit card fraud, identity theft and other crimes.
The latest two phishing attacks I had were emails with the following titles:
Please Update Your Amazon Account !
Ebay Inc. Annual Update of Records
A recent survey on phishing I did on how aware and vigilant average users were showed most people were essentially clueless and easy targets. It generated a lot of interest, including press and emails.
One thing people have repeated asked me for is a list of recent phishing attacks. There are so many and they change so rapidly it's not realistic for an individual to keep up with a list, although I did find one my friends at Internet Identity maintain. They shift through OVER one million emails a day looking for Phishing attacks and you can see the list here.
What would be more useful to individuals (and as comedian Steve Martin says, "Repeat after me, 'We are all individuals.'") is a short list of how to protect yourself from phishing attacks.
I'm going to write one soon - once the smoke clears, I'm kind of busy now finishing up my Blogging for Business book (due in February, although I need to finish everything much much sooner).
The latest two phishing attacks I had were emails with the following titles:
Please Update Your Amazon Account !
Ebay Inc. Annual Update of Records
A recent survey on phishing I did on how aware and vigilant average users were showed most people were essentially clueless and easy targets. It generated a lot of interest, including press and emails.
One thing people have repeated asked me for is a list of recent phishing attacks. There are so many and they change so rapidly it's not realistic for an individual to keep up with a list, although I did find one my friends at Internet Identity maintain. They shift through OVER one million emails a day looking for Phishing attacks and you can see the list here.
What would be more useful to individuals (and as comedian Steve Martin says, "Repeat after me, 'We are all individuals.'") is a short list of how to protect yourself from phishing attacks.
I'm going to write one soon - once the smoke clears, I'm kind of busy now finishing up my Blogging for Business book (due in February, although I need to finish everything much much sooner).
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 9:36 AM
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