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Mozilla to pull anti-phishing feature from Firefox 2.0

Mozilla will drop anti-phishing protection from the final version of Firefox 2.0 at Google Inc.'s request when Mozilla updates the browser later this month, a company executive confirmed Thursday.

| News | Internet | Security | 12/04/08 at 2:23 pm |


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Study Shows Phishers Don’t Really Catch Much

Researchers at Microsoft have discovered that most phishing scams bring in little to no money. Their study blames this on the oversaturation factor.

| News | Security | 11/18/08 at 3:34 am |


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Classmates.com Sued Over Deceptive Emails

Ars Technica is reporting that a customer of Classmates.com, a people finding and social networking service, is suing them for sending deceptive emails that trick people into signing up for their paid service. Read the rest of this entry>>

| News | Security | 11/14/08 at 4:47 am |


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Phishing Scams Rise as Banks Fail

As the economic crisis appears to peak, more banks will fail. This has experts predicting that new phishing scams will arise targeted at the customers of those banks, and the agencies helping those customers may be actually encouraging such attacks.

| News | Security | 11/13/08 at 4:29 am |


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