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November 05, 2004
EWeek Reports on New Phishing Attack
Accoring to EWeek.com, "a new phishing attach is utilizing a vulnerability in Internet Explorer....to hide its true source."
Man, how many times to we have to worry about security problems from Microsoft's browser. The threat that phishing scams and identity theft pose to the American public (and beyond) is incomprehensible. I don't believe there has ever been a time where the threat is poised to grow exponentially while the potential victims remain uninformed.
With more and more broadband "always on" modems connected to the Internet, phishing dangers, scams and identity theft will rise if people do not protect themselves adequately with firewalls, virus protection, spyware scanners and the like. But, the companies products we use, such as Microsoft, must do its part to totally secure the products they make.
If they do not, phishing is a practice that will continue and identity theft will grow and become a worse problem.
Posted by savsb at 03:33 PM | Comments (2)