Phishers are thwarted and games are enjoyed with new anti-phishing and game add-ins, each offered free by Microsoft for their MSN search toolbar. Free download available at the MSN website.

A new survey says that women have safer web surfing and Internet security habits than do men. Some question these findings, while others point out that neither is being particularly safe.

Argentine authorites have arrested fifteen people in a multinational phishing scam, and, separately, the U.S. FBI has arrested 8 people in a global online piracy investigation, spokespersons for the agencies have said. In the phishing scam, which was truly international, police arrested suspects from Argentina, Spain, Italy and Romania who…

A high school student has been identified as the mastermind behind a phishing scheme involving a fake banking website. According to authorities in Korea, the teenager, identified only by his surname ‘Kim’, managed to get personal and financial data from seventy-seven targets before he was ultimately caught. Officials explained that…

Cloudmark has released a report they commissioned on phishing and identity theft..the results are pretty interesting: SAN FRANCISCO, June 30 /PRNewswire/ — Cloudmark Inc., the proven leader in secure messaging from the desktop to the gateway, has completed groundbreaking research that describes for the first time howloosely-affiliated — but surprisingly…

In case you had any doubts about the global nature – the complex world-wide intricacies – of phishing networks, doubt no more. Case in point: Douglas Harvard and Lee Elwood were both sentenced in England this week to several years in jail for their part in a global phishing scam….

A spam postcard posing as a friendly postcard which is really a Trojan postcard. (Shades of Sir Winston!) Security firm Sophos is warning of a “spam postcard”, which appears to come from someone you know (as does so much spam these days), but which is really a Trojan laden with…

Microsoft has this week issued an advisory on a new trick which phishers are playing with users’ web browsers, including Internet Explorer, although other web browsers can be manipulated as well. The trick involves the use of overlapping browser windows which are automatically opened by a site which the user…

It must be the week for cute web animations. First Consumer Union did their cute web animation lampooning drug ads, and now the Federal Trade Commission has released a web animation for Fathers’ Day, featuring a father fish teaching his little fishies how not to fall victim to the phishers….

Just in time to make Memorial Day weekend really memorable, both AOL and Yahoo Instant Messengers are being targeted, the former by an Internet worm, the latter by a phishing scam. “hehe i found this funny movie”, says your AOL AIM Instant Messenger buddy. Only it’s not really your buddy,…

Aunty’s bank has this system in place. It’s a pain in the neck, but a good way to be sure that you are actually at your bank’s website. Of course, it requires you to remember what the extra image and phrase are, but, again, it’s a good way to ensure…

Groups and individuals being dubbed as Internet vigilantes are taking matters into their own hands when it comes to phishers and their phishy sites, and are using their hacking powers for good (they would argue) by hacking into phishing sites and defacing and mutilating them in some fashion so as…

[Spam Wars author Danny Goodman doesn’t just write about spam wars – he’s actively engaged in the trenches. Here, guest author Danny Goodman, fresh from the ordeal, tells us about taking aim at a phisher just last night.] May 10, 2005 Imagine That: Phishers Are Cynical One newbie PayPal phisher…

Net Patroler Phil W. offers the following additional information and very interesting analysis of the Associated Bank phishing scam.

A new, and oh-so-simple and deviously obvious scam has hit the Internet. According to a report in iAfrica, phishers are now purchasing ads on search engines such as Google, offering cheap airline tickets, and then sitting back and waiting for unsuspecting bargain shoppers to come to them. The cheap airline…