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'Phishing' scams explode worldwide: researchers

Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 20:52

Those insidious email scams known as phishing, in which a hacker uses a disguised address to get an Internet user to install malware, rose 87 percent worldwide in the past year, a security firm has said.

Cyber attack on White House: `No breach of classified system`

Last Updated: Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 10:09

The White House has said that it has experienced a "spear phishing attack against an unclassified network".

Facebook launches new system to report phishing attacks

Last Updated: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 13:25

Social networking giant Facebook has formed a new reporting system that would prevent the service from scammers and phishing attacks.

Google alerts users of suspected state-sponsored cyber attacks

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 22:51

Search giant Google has warned users that their accounts may be "targetted" by state-sponsored cyber attacks and asked them to take immediate steps to protect their data.

E-mail biggies join hands to fight spam

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 09:26

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and "phishing" attacks.

Major phishing racket busted, 6 Nigerians held

Last Updated: Monday, January 2, 2012, 23:00

Mumbai police claimed to have busted an international phishing racket who are suspected to have duped thousands of people in India to the tune of crores of rupees.

China to curb online phishing

Last Updated: Friday, December 30, 2011, 14:01

China`s ten major search engines have agreed to put banks` official homepages at the top of search results in a bid to curb cyber scams.

`386 phishing incidents reported between Jan-Oct`

Last Updated: Friday, November 25, 2011, 16:00

The government said 386 `phishing` incidents were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) between Jan and Oct this year.

Now, picture password to protect online account!

Last Updated: Sunday, November 6, 2011, 18:45

Here`s some good news -- researchers claim to have developed picture password for your online account, which will also help protect against hacking.

India among top 3 phishing targets

Last Updated: Friday, June 10, 2011, 00:45

India along with the US and UK accounted for 70% of the brands targeted by phishing in April.

India home for phishing emails: IBM

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 14:31

Public and pvt cos around the world faced sophisticated, customized IT security threats in 2010.

Facebook bug that allows personal data access, phishing repaired

Last Updated: Sunday, February 6, 2011, 18:23

A Facebook security threat that would allow anyone to access your personal data has been repaired.