http://thebankwatch.com/2006/10/29/spam-bot-herds-and-threats-to-the-internet-lifestyle/ Tracking the evolution of financial services Thu, 10 May 2012 08:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thebankwatch.com/2006/10/29/spam-bot-herds-and-threats-to-the-internet-lifestyle/#comment-3992 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:09:55 +0000 http://bankwatch.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/spam-bot-herds-and-threats-to-the-internet-lifestyle/#comment-3992 [...] But email spam has relegated me to thinking abut which email address I use for which service, and has certainly made gmail the only choice for me due to their superior handling of all that crap.  And now email spam has gone into hyper mode these last three months as the spammers have taken a lesson from the hackers, and learned to use their tools such as bot herds to send out even more spam than ever. [...]

]]> http://thebankwatch.com/2006/10/29/spam-bot-herds-and-threats-to-the-internet-lifestyle/#comment-3321 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:18:25 +0000 http://bankwatch.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/spam-bot-herds-and-threats-to-the-internet-lifestyle/#comment-3321 [...]  Update to the earlier post.  The increased phishing in the first half of this year, is resulting in significant increases in fraud attempts through Banks’ online banking throughout the world. More of us are getting conned into giving out our bank details over the internet. Phishing fraud uses emails and fake websites to trick customers into revealing their username and password. Between January and June this year there were more than 5,000 cases. That’s compared to 312 in the first six months of 2005. [...]

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