A couple recent news stories
1)
Intuit warns of credit card risk
http://news.com.com/Intuit+warns+of+credit+card+risk/2100-1029_3-5269821.html
2)
Cyberattacks are soaring, countermeasures are sucking up tons of cash, and
hardware and software vendors for the most part are sitting it out, *Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
McAfee Research has proposed solutions to some of their larger customers
and has an anti-phishing white paper:
http://www.networkassociates.com/us/_tier2/products/_media/mcafee/wp_an
tiphishing.pdf
the paper, at:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Grigg
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:49 AM
Here's my question - is anyone in the security
field of any sort of repute being asked about
phishing, consulted about solutions, contracted
to build? Anything?
McAfee
On Jul 3, 2004, at 14:22, Dave Howe wrote:
Well if nothing else, it is impossible for my bank to send me anything
I would believe via email now
To take this even slightly more on-topic - does anyone here have a
bank capable of authenticating themselves to you when they ring you?
I have had
At 07:23 AM 7/5/2004, Anton Stiglic wrote:
Identity has many meanings. In a typical dictionary you will find several
definitions for the word identity. When we are talking about information
systems, we usually talk about a digital identity, which has other meanings
as well. If you are in the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason H
olt writes:
[...]
I had the same question about the NSA when some friends were interviewing
there. Apparently investigators will just show up at your house and want to
know all sorts of things about your friends, who you may or may not know to be
in the
However, in some scenarios
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#61
the common use of static data is so pervasive that an individual's
information
is found at thousands of institutions. The value of the information to the
criminal is that the same information can be used to perpetrate fraud
Steve Furlong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 06:49, Ian Grigg wrote:
Here's my question - is anyone in the security
field of any sort of repute being asked about
phishing, consulted about solutions, contracted
to build? Anything?
Nothing here. Spam is the main concern on
At 12:26 PM 7/1/2004, John Denker wrote:
The object of phishing is to perpetrate so-called identity
theft, so I must begin by objecting to that concept on two
different grounds.
Subsequent posters have doubted the wisdom of quibbling with the term identity
theft. I think the terminology
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Denker
Sent: 1 juillet 2004 14:27
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ian Grigg
Subject: Re: authentication and authorization (was: Question on the state of
the security industry)
1) For starters, identity theft
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I shared the gist of the question with a leader
of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Peter Cassidy.
Thanks Dan, and thanks Peter,
...
I think we have that situation. For the first
time we are facing a real, difficult security
problem. And the security experts have shot
I recently had the same trouble with the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) - who were calling around to followup on infant influenza
innoculations given last fall.
Ultimately, they wanted me to provide authorization to them to receive
HIPPA protected patient records from my son's pediatrician,
- Original Message -
From: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Question on the state of the security industry
Here's my question - is anyone in the security
field of any sort of repute being asked about
phishing, consulted about solutions, contracted
to build? Anything?
I am
On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 06:49, Ian Grigg wrote:
Here's my question - is anyone in the security
field of any sort of repute being asked about
phishing, consulted about solutions, contracted
to build? Anything?
Nothing here. Spam is the main concern on people's minds, so far as I
can tell.
Ian Grigg wrote:
The phishing thing has now reached the mainstream,
epidemic proportions that were feared and predicted
in this list over the last year or two.
OK.
For the first
time we are facing a real, difficult security
problem. And the security experts have shot
their wad.
The object
The phishing thing has now reached the mainstream,
epidemic proportions that were feared and predicted
in this list over the last year or two. Many of
the solution providers are bailing in with ill-
thought out tools, presumably in the hope of cashing
in on a buying splurge, and hoping to turn
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