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PHISHING
A study by Gartner, a security company, found that as much as 3 percent of phishing scams may be successful, with Internet users divulging sensitive information to the scam artists.
Based on Internet id theft statistics from a survey of 5000 U.S. adult Internet users, Gartner estimated that...
Based on Internet id theft statistics from a survey of 5000 U.S. adult Internet users, Gartner estimated that...
- 57 million adults have experienced a phishing attack
- 1.78 million adults could have fallen victim to the scams
- The cost of phishing... 1.2 billion dollars!
Pharming
- In January 2005, the Domain Name for a large New York ISP, Panix, was hijacked to point users to a site in Australia.
- In 2004 a German teenager hijacked the eBay.de Domain Name.
- Hushmail, a provider of secure email services, was also attacked with pharming. In April of 2005 a hacker (the "pharmer") -- through inappropriate communications with the domain registrar -- was able to redirect users to a defaced webpage.
- Pharmers generally come from overseas, such as China, Russia and Eastern Europe, experts say. They fear many are tied to organized-crime rings that buy and sell identity information.