ghacks Technology News

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Aug 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Help the fight against phishing with Phishtank

For anti-phishing tools to work, phishing sites must be identified to analyse and to warn people about.
Sites like Web of Trust allow users to share information about phishing sites, but scores of similar tools exist and as it would be counter-productive for each to maintain their own database of phishing sites.
PhishTank centralises phishing reports and [...]

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Categories: Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 10th, 2008
  • Comments: 3

Add Hostname To Firefox Titlebar

The hostname is basically the root url of a website, for Ghacks it would be www.ghacks.net. Adding that information to the titlebar has two apparent benefits. Number one is related to phishing. Antiphishing measures have been implemented in many web browsers and security software programs which could lead to the assumption that “yet another” way [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 6th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Free Phishing Protection with Delphish

Many Internet users do not realize how dangerous Phishing can be. They receive a email which claims to be from their bank and they blindly trust everything that is written in that mail and will click on any links that are displayed in that mail to “update” their security software or passwords. They are usually redirected to sites that password fish their passwords and use them to make online transactions. I’m always astonished by the amount of users that want to do online banking for instance on the Internet but lack basic security knowledge.

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Categories: Email, Security

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 6th, 2006
  • Comments: 9

Realtime Anti-Phishing Add-on for Firefox gone bad

Phishing, as wikipedia puts it, is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. I receive daily mails that seem to come from respected websites like ebay, amazon or financial sites that ask me to update my software by following a link from within the email. This leads to a fake website that looks similar to the website that you normally visit. Once you enter your login data the criminals will have and use that information for their own advantage.

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 14th, 2006
  • Comments: 5

Anti-Phishing Tips

Phishing is a popular method to capture personal data such as passwords, transaction numbers and credit card details. The company I´am working with locks several user accounts each day to prevent harm done to them due to phishing. It normaly starts with an email asking you to update your profile, to download a security update or a email that reveals that you are the highest bidder of an ebay auction (that you do not know about).

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Categories: Advice, Security

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