Microsoft Recreates an ‘Online Scam’ in New York
11 jul 2010
Microsoft created a fake bank and an inheritance store in New York that worked just like those online phishing scam. This was for an IE ad.
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Scary – Facebook Message Points to a Phishing Site
18 aug 2009
There are some rogue applications in the Facebook ecosystem that are trying to harvest your Facebook credentials. You are taking to a phishing site that looks exactly like the Facebook start page.
Firefox 2.0 to Disable Anti-Phishing Feature
07 dec 2008
Firefox has decided to retire the anti-phishing feature starting version 2.0.0.19 of Firefox. Firefox 3.0 will continue to offer antiphishing protection.
Phishing Emails Responsible for Domain Hijackings: Google
26 nov 2008
Google engineers have posted a detailed explanation saying that the recent domain hijacking related incidents were due to phishing and not because of any security flaws in the Gmail software.
Did you fall for TwitterRank ?
12 nov 2008
TwitterRank, a ranking algorithm for Twitter users which currently tops the Twitter search topics, is an elaborate but probably harmless prank. This is what the developer has left as a comment in the HTML markup.
International Domain Names – See Your Browser Status Bar
31 jul 2008
From US-Cert: Because there are certain characters that may appear to be the same but have different ASCII codes (for example, the Cyrillic "a" and the Latin "a"), an attacker may be able to "spoof" a web page URL.
Fake ICICI Bank Website – Learn How to Spot One
10 oct 2007
Are you on the ICICI bank website that’s not fake – find it now.