This week we revisit the Facebook vs. Wallace case; get a 100-million report from the FBI, and see the Anti-Phishing game now available as courseware. Stay tuned to online crime and protect yourself!
Facebook settlement means little in the long run
When the Spam King, sometimes known as Sanford Wallace, got kicked in the teeth with $711.2 million USD in damages, some said this would send a clear message to others following on the same path. Will it really? Will an order from the courts, to a man who has already filed bankruptcy, to pay hundreds of millions in damages, matter in the slightest?
ReadFBI: Online Banking Attacks Reach $100 Million Mark
In an intelligence note, FBI officials say a mix of banking Trojans and phishing attacks has plagued victims – mainly public institutions and small and midsize businesses – to the tune of $100 million in attempted losses as of October. read print
Hacked Twitter accounts used to send Spam
Some of the trends on Twitter at the moment are “spam”, “hacked”, and “password,” as there are thousands of reports from people who receive spam direct messages from their friends’ Twitter accounts. Apparently, those Twitter accounts have been compromised through phishing, receiving emails and direct messages requesting them to visit a web page ( actually a Twitter clone ) and enter their username and password. read
Anti-Phishing Training Game Now Available As elearning Courseware
In its drive to make its solutions available to a broader range of companies, Wombat Security Technologies has joined Plateau’s iContent partner ecosystem to make its flagship Anti-Phishing Phil training game available as eLearning content. While Phil is easy to deploy, iContent makes it available via a content-as-a-service solution so that organizations, specifically small and mid-sized companies, no longer have to deploy the educational game on company servers.
Dr. Norman Sadeh, Founder and CEO of Wombat Security Technologies says:
“By making the interactive and instructive Anti-Phishing Phil courseware available for immediate access in a fully hosted and managed environment, we are providing a truly unique learner experience that will help organizations, especially small and mid-sized companies, protect themselves against phishing scams.”
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