spam and phishing

White Papers

Protecting Commercial Online Banking Customers From Next-Generation Malware

January 25, 2010 12:00am PST

In 2009, organized cyber crime rings began to shift away from massive phishing attacks against consumer banking users, and instead target bigger fish - corporate banking users. The cybercriminals...

Provided by: COMPUTERLINKS

White Papers

PhishNet: Predictive Blacklisting to Detect Phishing Attacks

January 11, 2010 12:00am PST

Phishing has been easy and effective way for trickery and deception on the Internet. While solutions such as URL blacklisting have been effective to some degree, their reliance on exact match with...

Provided by: Purdue University

White Papers

Seeing Beyond the Surface: Understanding and Tracking Fraudulent Cyber Activities

January 9, 2010 12:00am PST

The malaise of electronic spam mail that solicit illicit partnership using bogus business proposals (popularly called 419 mails) remained unabated on the internet despite concerted efforts. In...

Provided by: Southern University and A&M College

Discussion Threads

How do I prevent phishing attacks in Firefox 3?

January 8, 2010 8:36am PST

How do I prevent phishing attacks in Firefox 3? article root Best of Phishing prevention? What preemptive applications and add-ons do you recommend and/or deploy for preventing phishing attacks?...

11 Started by Mark W. Kaelin  |  Latest comment by TobyG

Blog Post

How do I prevent phishing attacks in Firefox 3?

January 8, 2010 8:34am PST

Jack Wallen shows you how to prevent phishing attacks with extra preventative measures that you can add to Firefox.

11 Latest comment by TobyG

Downloads

How do I prevent phishing attacks in Firefox 3?

January 8, 2010 12:00am PST

Jack Wallen shows you how you can add extra preventative measures to Firefox to combat phishing attacks, as well as test your browser to make sure it is actually catching attempts. This download...

Provided by: Jack Wallen

White Papers

TruWalletM: Secure Web Authentication on Mobile Platforms

January 5, 2010 12:00am PST

Mobile phones are increasingly used as general purpose computing devices with permanent Internet connection. This imposes several threats as the phone Operating System (OS) is typically derived...

Provided by: Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

Case Studies

eEye Digital Security Watches Security With Astaro

January 1, 2010 12:00am PST

Employees at eEye Digital Security were receiving too much spam emails. The company began its search for a single solution that would solve his web, mail and network security issues. The challenge...

Provided by: Astaro

White Papers

Wi-Phishing and "Evil Twins" at Hotspots: How to Secure Your Mobile Workforce

January 1, 2010 12:00am PST

Airports and even gas stations offering wireless connectivity, road warriors have found a convenient way to stay in touch with the corporate office. While using public hotspots is convenient, the...

Provided by: AirDefense

White Papers

Workload Characterization of Spam Email Filtering Systems

January 1, 2010 12:00am PST

Email systems have suffered from degraded quality of service due to rampant spam, phishing and fraudulent emails. This is partly because the classification speed of email filtering systems falls...

Provided by: University of Massachusetts

White Papers

BogusBiter: A Transparent Protection Against Phishing Attacks

December 28, 2009 12:00am PST

Many anti-phishing mechanisms currently focus on helping users verify whether a web site is genuine. However, usability studies have demonstrated that prevention-based approaches alone fail to...

Provided by: College of William and Mary

White Papers

Large-Scale Automatic Classification of Phishing Pages

December 19, 2009 12:00am PST

Phishing websites, fraudulent sites that impersonate a trusted third party to gain access to private data, continue to cost Internet users over a billion dollars each year. This paper describes...

Provided by: Google

Image Gallery

Spotlight: SpamStopsHere

December 16, 2009 7:47am PST

SpamStopsHere is a hosted, third part anti-spam solution that uses innovative algorithms to detect spam and zap it before it reaches your servers.

White Papers

Key Challenges in Fighting Phishing and Pharming

December 15, 2009 12:00am PST

This white paper aims to inform the reader about the diverse and constantly-evolving phishing threats, and how these threats can account for a company's substantial loss in customers,...

Provided by: Frost & Sullivan

White Papers

Harvesting SSL Certificate Data to Identify Web-Fraud

December 15, 2009 12:00am PST

Web-fraud is one of the most unpleasant features of today's Internet. Two eminent examples of web-fraudulent activities are phishing and typosquatting. Their effects range from relatively benign...

Provided by: University of California

White Papers

SBotMiner: Large Scale Search Bot Detection

December 14, 2009 12:00am PST

This paper studies search bot traffic from search engine query logs at a large scale. Although bots that generate search traffic aggressively can be easily detected, a large number of distributed,...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

White Papers

VoIP Security Needs Attention Now

December 13, 2009 12:00am PST

VoIP security has been an issue for the industry almost since its conception, for the providers. Many consumers seem to be uninformed or just uninterested when it comes to protecting their...

Provided by: VoIP Providers List

White Papers

The Seed Encryption Scheme for Security of Peer-to-Peer Communications

December 13, 2009 12:00am PST

The paper focuses at providing optimal security blanket for enmasse of information exchange between nodes involved in peer-to-peer mode of communication. Dedicated nodes communicating in this mode...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

Q&A

Did Tech Republic really send out the Whitepaper on phishing?

December 6, 2009 8:35pm PST

I just ran a search on phishing after clicking on Whitepapers. There are 730 results. You might find it in there. :D Did Tech Republic really send out the Whitepaper on phishing? I've just...

2 Started by usoulsby@...  |  Latest comment by Jacky Howe

White Papers

StarClique: Guaranteeing User Privacy in Social Networks Against Intersection Attacks

December 4, 2009 12:00am PST

Building on the popularity of Online Social Networks (OSNs) such as Facebook, social content-sharing applications allow users to form communities around shared interests. Millions of users...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery