Slashdot Items Tagged "phishing"

Date / Time Story
Wednesday August 16, 2023 @04:57PM Major US Energy Organization Targeted In QR Code Phishing Attack
Friday May 26, 2023 @05:21PM Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
Monday February 13, 2023 @04:38PM NameCheap's Email Hacked To Send Metamask, DHL Phishing Emails
Friday October 28, 2022 @08:31AM The Worst Phishing Attacks in History - Ways to Protect Yourself
Monday August 15, 2022 @06:34PM 1,900 Signal Users' Phone Numbers Exposed By Twilio Phishing
Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:10PM How Coinbase Phishers Steal One-Time Passwords
Friday June 11, 2021 @05:18PM Phishing Sites Reached All-Time High In January 2021
Tuesday April 27, 2021 @06:43PM Ask Slashdot: How Harmful Are In-House Phishing Campaigns?
Friday September 18, 2020 @05:15PM Iranian Hackers Found Way Into Encrypted Apps, Researchers Say
Tuesday August 18, 2020 @08:15PM The Attack That Broke Twitter Is Hitting Dozens of Companies
Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:25PM Chrome and Firefox Block Torrent Site YTS Over 'Phishing'
Friday February 07, 2020 @02:08PM Anatomy of a Rental Phishing Scam
Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:35PM Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing
Friday October 25, 2019 @05:53PM Nearly 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud Users Exposed To Hackers
Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:22PM YouTube Bans Content 'Showing Users How To Bypass Secure Computer Systems'
Friday April 19, 2019 @02:35PM Google Will Begin To Block Sign-ins From Embedded Browser Frameworks in June
Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:01PM Microsoft Takes Control of 99 Domains Operated By Iranian State Hackers
Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:58PM Egypt Government Used Gmail Third-Party Apps To Phish Activists
Friday January 18, 2019 @06:31PM Russian Hackers Allegedly Attempted To Breach the DNC After the 2018 Midterms
Wednesday January 09, 2019 @02:17PM New Tool Automates Phishing Attacks That Bypass 2FA
Saturday December 29, 2018 @05:42AM FTC Warns Netflix Users About Email Phishing Scam
Thursday December 13, 2018 @06:55PM Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail
Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:13AM Apple 'Deeply Apologetic' Over Account Hacks in China
Saturday October 06, 2018 @11:37PM Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever
Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:39PM Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign
Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:07AM Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M
Friday June 08, 2018 @04:39PM WiFi Phishing Attacks Discovered Around Atlanta City Hall
Sunday May 13, 2018 @11:31PM California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts
Saturday May 05, 2018 @05:07PM Chinese Government Is Behind a Decade of Hacks On Software Companies, Says Report
Friday February 16, 2018 @06:32PM Phishing Attack Scores Credentials For More Than 50,000 Snapchat Users
Monday November 20, 2017 @05:01PM Why Hackers Reuse Malware
Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:43PM A Canadian University Gave $11 Million To a Scammer
Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:41PM DC Judge Approves Government Warrant For Data From Anti-Trump Website
Monday May 15, 2017 @07:21AM Gizmodo Went Phishing With the Trump Team -- Will They Catch a Charge?
Thursday May 04, 2017 @05:08PM Google Was Warned About This Week's Mass Phishing Email Attack Six Years Ago
Wednesday May 03, 2017 @04:31PM Gmail, Google Docs Users Hit By Massive Email Phishing Scam
Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:17PM Facebook and Google Were Victims of $100M Payment Scam
Monday April 17, 2017 @09:29AM Chrome 59 To Address Punycode Phishing Attack
Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:38PM A Lithuanian Phisher Tricked Two Big US Tech Companies Into Wiring Him $100 Million
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:18PM Inside a Phishing Gang That Targets Victims of iPhone Theft
Wednesday January 18, 2017 @01:27AM Dutch Developer Added Backdoor To Websites He Built, Phished Over 20,000 Users
Monday December 19, 2016 @02:13PM Nigerian Man Charged in Hacking of Los Angeles County Emails
Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:21PM International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains
Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:01PM Microsoft Deprecating 'Obsolete' SmartScreen Spam Filters In Outlook and Exchange
Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:22PM Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them
Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:57PM Malware Linked To Government of Kazakhstan Targets Journalists, Political Activists and Lawyers, Says Report
Monday August 01, 2016 @06:47PM QRLJacking Attack Can Bypass Any QR Login System
Friday June 24, 2016 @03:11PM Piracy Phishing Scam Targets US ISPs and Subscribers
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:30PM 'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam
Thursday June 02, 2016 @09:56AM 93% Of Phishing Emails Are Now Ransomware
Tuesday April 19, 2016 @10:09PM Google Admits That Google.com Is Partially Dangerous
Wednesday April 06, 2016 @01:07PM Phishing Email That Knows Your Address
Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:04AM Chinese Scammers Take Mattel To the Bank, Phishing Them For $3 Million
Friday March 25, 2016 @03:18PM 1.5 Million Verizon Customer Records Put Up For Sale
Monday March 07, 2016 @11:28AM Seagate Hit By Targeted Phishing Attacks Seeking W2 Data
Tuesday December 01, 2015 @12:17PM Phishing Blast Uses Dropbox To Target Hong Kong Journalists
Friday October 09, 2015 @07:07AM Iran-Based Hacking Crew Uses Fake LinkedIn Profiles In Espionage Attacks
Wednesday October 01, 2014 @01:48PM Hundreds of Police Agencies Distributing Spyware and Keylogger
Friday June 20, 2014 @06:39PM Make a Date With Fraud
Tuesday June 04, 2013 @10:06AM Banking Malware, Under the Hood
Tuesday May 14, 2013 @12:47PM Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages
Thursday May 09, 2013 @04:51PM How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
Thursday May 02, 2013 @09:28AM Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers
Wednesday February 20, 2013 @02:24AM Oxford Temporarily Blocks Google Docs To Fight Phishing
Saturday February 16, 2013 @09:00PM Webmail and Online Banks Targeted By Phishing Proxies
Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:29PM Widespread Compromise Of Yahoo-Backed Email In New Zealand
Wednesday January 16, 2013 @12:29PM New Phishing Toolkit Uses Whitelisting To 'Bounce' Non-Victims
Saturday October 27, 2012 @04:15PM Cash-Strapped States Burdened by Expensive Data Security Breaches
Tuesday September 11, 2012 @09:24AM Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors
Monday September 10, 2012 @02:24PM Look-Alike Web Sites Hoodwink Republican Donors
Monday September 03, 2012 @08:19PM Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper
Friday August 17, 2012 @08:01PM Destructive Shamoon Malware Targets Energy Sector
Monday July 23, 2012 @12:51AM Fake Password Reset E-mail Hits 7,500 Black Hat Registrants
Monday January 30, 2012 @12:29PM Big Internet Players Propose DMARC Anti-Phishing Protocol
Monday January 30, 2012 @10:38AM Net Giants Propose Anti-Phishing Protocol
Tuesday November 01, 2011 @01:13PM Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords?
Wednesday September 07, 2011 @07:11AM Cybercrime Victims Number One Million Each Day
Friday August 26, 2011 @03:15AM Was this the email that took down RSA?
Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:45PM ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing
Thursday June 02, 2011 @03:01PM Google Uncovers China-Based Password Collection Campaign
Saturday May 28, 2011 @03:01PM PayPal Accuses Google of Poaching Mobile Payment Trade Secrets, Personnel
Friday May 20, 2011 @10:07PM Phishing Site Discovered On Sony Thailand Servers
Friday May 20, 2011 @11:19AM Phishing site discovered on Sony servers
Tuesday April 19, 2011 @06:09PM Phishing attack forces ORNL offline
Wednesday April 13, 2011 @11:15AM A Look Inside Cybercriminal Mule Networks
Friday April 08, 2011 @06:18PM Epsilon Breach Used Four-month-old Attack
Saturday April 02, 2011 @09:06PM Epsilon Data Breach Bigger Than Just Kroger Customers' Data
Saturday April 02, 2011 @07:19PM Massive Breach at Epsilon Compromises Major Brands
Friday April 01, 2011 @11:33PM RSA Says SecurID Hack Based On Phishing With Flash 0-Day
Tuesday March 29, 2011 @11:32AM Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed
Tuesday March 29, 2011 @09:54AM Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed
Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:38AM Attacks Targeting Classified Ad Sites Surge
Wednesday February 02, 2011 @09:37AM Attacks Targeting Classified Ad Sites Surge
Tuesday January 25, 2011 @04:13PM PayPal Most Phished, Facebook Most Blocked
Tuesday January 04, 2011 @08:44PM Mobile Users More Vulnerable To Phishing Attacks
Thursday December 02, 2010 @09:59AM The Golden Hour of Phishing Attacks
Wednesday November 10, 2010 @05:26PM Targeted Attacks Focus On Economic Cyberterrorism
Friday September 10, 2010 @10:18AM Robots Taught to Deceive
Wednesday July 07, 2010 @10:39AM 'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros
Wednesday June 16, 2010 @08:22AM 420,000 Scam E-mails Sent Every Hour In UK Alone
Wednesday April 28, 2010 @11:48PM Computer Competency Test For Non-IT Hires?
Saturday April 24, 2010 @06:09PM Phishing Education Test Blocked For Phishing
Tuesday April 13, 2010 @11:27PM Please Do Not Change Your Password
Tuesday March 02, 2010 @12:42PM New 'Spear Phishing' Attacks Target IT Admins
Wednesday February 03, 2010 @04:42PM Huge Phishing Attack On Emissions Trade In Europe
Sunday January 17, 2010 @08:12AM Another Attack, On Law Firm Suing China
Monday December 14, 2009 @05:46PM PayPal Offers $150,000 In Developer Challenge
Wednesday November 04, 2009 @08:10PM PayPal Introduces Open API
Friday October 30, 2009 @06:29PM ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs
Thursday October 08, 2009 @09:27AM FBI Cracks "Largest Phishing Case Ever"
Wednesday October 07, 2009 @07:42PM Why the FBI director doesn't bank online
Thursday October 01, 2009 @11:25AM Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners
Thursday September 10, 2009 @03:52PM Watered Down Phishing Protection In IPhone OS 3.1?
Saturday August 29, 2009 @07:14AM Swedish Regulators Ban Word "Bank" In Domain Names For Non-Banks
Monday December 08, 2008 @02:41AM Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection
Monday December 08, 2008 @12:08AM China's .cn Now the Second Most Popular TLD
Tuesday March 04, 2008 @07:27AM Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari
Monday December 10, 2007 @10:55AM Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of)
Thursday November 08, 2007 @03:18AM Highly Targeted Phishing From Salesforce.com Leak
Tuesday May 08, 2007 @02:35AM A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing?
Thursday April 12, 2007 @12:23PM Boarding Pass Hacker Targets Bank of America
Wednesday March 28, 2007 @04:38PM PayPal Asks E-mail Services to Block Messages
Friday March 16, 2007 @02:55PM Blogger System Sites Used for Phishing
Wednesday March 14, 2007 @05:07PM Tracking the Password Thieves
Tuesday February 20, 2007 @03:49AM E-Bay's Sign-in system can assist phishers
Tuesday February 13, 2007 @05:03PM RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does"
Monday February 05, 2007 @05:21PM Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed
Wednesday January 24, 2007 @04:09PM Google Antiphishing Site Exposed Private User Data
Thursday January 18, 2007 @08:11PM Deadly phishing scams
Wednesday December 20, 2006 @11:33AM Small Businesses Worry About MS Anti-Phishing
Thursday December 14, 2006 @04:52PM MySpace Users Have Stronger Passwords Than Employees
Wednesday December 13, 2006 @11:01AM IE7 Blocking Google Image Search?
Friday November 24, 2006 @10:27PM The Long Arm of Microsoft
Tuesday November 14, 2006 @02:27PM Firefox 2.0 Wins Phishfight Against IE7
Tuesday November 07, 2006 @02:26AM Phishers Arrested In Eastern Europe and US
Friday November 03, 2006 @05:34AM Spam That Delivers a Pink Slip
Wednesday November 01, 2006 @08:45PM Domain Resale Market Is Phisher Heaven
Wednesday November 01, 2006 @05:18PM How To Get Your Steam Account Pwned
Tuesday October 31, 2006 @02:59PM MySpace Accounts Compromised By Phishers
Friday October 20, 2006 @07:16PM Opera to Start Phoning Home?
Friday September 15, 2006 @07:18PM Can Banks Shift Phishing Losses to Customers?
Friday September 15, 2006 @06:41PM Google Public Service Search Makes for Easy Phishing
Tuesday July 11, 2006 @09:30PM Phishers Defeat Citibank's 2-Factor Authentication
Monday July 10, 2006 @01:34PM New(?) Anti-Fraud DNS service
Monday July 10, 2006 @01:24AM Voice Phishing Hits PayPal
Wednesday July 05, 2006 @12:45PM Portrait of an Identity Thief
Thursday June 29, 2006 @08:03AM Dealing with Phishing
Thursday June 22, 2006 @11:21AM Slashback: Sidekick Justice, Free WebTV, Office Patent
Friday June 16, 2006 @02:19PM PayPal Security Flaw Allows Identity Theft
Tuesday May 16, 2006 @12:45AM People Suck at Spotting Phishing
Sunday May 14, 2006 @06:54PM The Economy of Online Crime
Friday April 28, 2006 @09:43PM Phishers Get Phoney
Tuesday April 11, 2006 @11:37PM Certified Email Not Here to Reduce Spam
Monday April 10, 2006 @07:57PM Government-Aided Phishing
Thursday April 06, 2006 @03:19PM New Phishing Flaw in Internet Explorer
Friday March 31, 2006 @06:32PM Phishing Steals Spotlight at MIT Conference
Friday March 31, 2006 @12:24AM Why Phishing Works
Monday March 13, 2006 @01:24PM Hacked Chinese Bank Server Phishes for US Banks
Thursday March 09, 2006 @02:53PM Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology
Sunday March 05, 2006 @01:29AM 5% of All Web Traffic Unsafe
Sunday March 05, 2006 @01:28AM MIT Startup Tests Top Million Sites for Spyware