PHISHING: Blind Trust in Email Can Cost You Your Home
Jon and Dorothy Little, who in November of 2016, at the closing on a house they were buying, found out that a phishing attack from a fraudster had tricked them into wiring their house funds to the wrong bank account. The months of worry and anguish were just starting.
Webroot mistakenly flags windows files as malicious and Facebook as a Phishing Site
It’s unclear how so many legitimate Windows files and one of the world’s best-known websites were flagged in a huge false positive fracas, but that’s the situation that many thousands of Webroot found themselves in yesterday. Antivirus vendor Webroot...
The almost impossible to detect phishing attack in detect on Chrome, Firefox and Opera
This is one of those instances where the Microsoft and Apple browser beat out the competition – because this problem is mainly affecting Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera browsers.
Hackers have found a way of registering domains using unicode characters, which look like they are other websites… ie, they can not fake a domain you might have a login to, and the faked address can be nearly impossible to spot.
Learn how to fight this in at least Firefox, and when you might expect a fix from the other browsers.
IRS warns of Phishing Attacks this (and every) Tax Season
The IRS warns us every year, that Tax Season brings an increase in the number of phishing attacks targeting the unwary, pretending to be from the Internal Revenue Service. This year is no different and here is the advice offered by the IRS this year.