Posts Tagged ‘phishing’

Watch Out for Domain Registrar Phishing Attacks

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Official-looking e-mails appear to be from prominent registrars — they’re really attempts to steal your domains Both eNom and Network Solutions, two very large registrars that handle millions of domain registrations, are the target of a major phishing attack. It is believed that the perpetrators’ purpose is to acquire the login details for victims’ domain registrar accounts and thereby steal or otherwise compromise their domain registrations.
Phishing warning posted on Network Solutions home page

Phishing warning posted on Network Solutions home page

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Phishing and Phishing Detection

Saturday, January 5th, 2008
I recently had 2 diametrically opposite experiences with phishing. In the world of the Internet, “phishing” is when some entity (a scammer) — typically, a website or e-mail sender — pretends to be some organization that a user has a relationship with, and attempts to entice the user into providing personal and confidential information (such as passwords, bank account numbers, PIN numbers, etc.) to the scammer. eBay, PayPal, banks, and other similar sites are popular phishing targets. (more…)

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