Leslie Walker, Washington Post 2004-07-29
Maybe it's time we all went to digital self-defense school. How else can we learn how to deflect the Internet thieves pounding on our electronic doors?
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Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of Phishers
2004-07-29
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Basically, there is no defense against this. You can patch a computer, but you cant patch the ignorance of people.
It is so easy to do get almost any info you want on anyone. Through "what seems" perfectly legal sites, one can manipulate thier services to in theory become anyone !...
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It is so easy to do get almost any info you want on anyone. Through "what seems" perfectly legal sites, one can manipulate thier services to in theory become anyone !...
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Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of Phishers
2004-07-29
Todd Knarr
Todd Knarr
I wonder about all this uproar about phishing. It isn't anything new, after all, it's been going on since credit cards came on the scene. The traditional scheme has been a standard letter purporting to come from the company, asking you to fill in the enclosed form and return it to the company in a p...
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Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of Phishers
2004-07-30
TJ
TJ
I work in the computer industry as a network administrator, so I'm very knowledgeable about security issues and safe computing. My home network is secured via hardware and software firewalls, daily updated antivirus software, hardened operating systems and safe computing practices.
Despite this, ...
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Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of Phishers
2004-07-30
Anonymous
Anonymous
"But there is still no Web-wide tool to help us know we are visiting a legitimate Web site. Gartner analyst Avivah Litan thinks it's partly because no one
has figured out how to make money with such an authentication service. And without one, Litan worries that e-commerce could be headed for troubl...
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has figured out how to make money with such an authentication service. And without one, Litan worries that e-commerce could be headed for troubl...
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Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of Phishers
2004-07-30
Bob from Denver
Bob from Denver
I'm afraid you're right. Speaking personally, I have drastically curtailed my on-line activity. While I still do business with a handful of companies I trust, like Amazon, I no longer open accounts at new sites. I do not supply personal information to anyone; if a site wants me to "register" to v...
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No universal tool?
2004-07-31
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While it may be beyond the scope of joe shmoe's internet surfing ability, there are key ifnrastructures in place now, assymetric key encryption. Each website could have its own key, as well as each user of a given commerce site. This would at the very least make impersonating more difficult. One e...
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heard, is hacker-speak for electronic fishing."
Ok, to be totally pedantic here.
"phishing" is a term birders use. Birders, known to the un ininitiated as bird-watchers, use "phishing" to draw a bird out of its hiding place. Birds will hide in the trees/shrubs/et...
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