A phishing attack has been discovered on the UK Government’s Home Office website, The Register reports. The attack, which targets poste.it, the website of Italian bank Poste Italiane, can be found here. The attack was detected by security researchers PrevX and used an RFI exploit via an SQL injection to serve the fraudulent [...]
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Phishing Attack Hosted on UK Government Website
June 1st, 2008 | by Adam Pope | 2 CommentsTagged in: Phishing
Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox 3 Released
May 20th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsNetcraft have released a Firefox 3 compatible version of their widely used anti-phishing toolbar. The new 1.2 version can be downloaded from addons.mozilla.org.
We named the Netcraft Toolbar as one of our Top Web Browsing Extensions and are delighted to be able to continue using it with the lastest version of our favourite web browser.
Thank [...]
XSS Vulnerability at PayPal could lead to Phishing
May 16th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | 5 CommentsA cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) has been found in online payment processing firm PayPal’s website. The vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution and could be used in a Phishing attack to gather data from unsuspecting users.
01782 673000 Phone Scam
February 20th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | 46 CommentsI’ve just got off of the phone with the lovely people at …. I have no idea what company, they certainly weren’t Orange that’s for sure! Its a scam, pure and simple.
