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Phishing In The Channel

Posted by michael on from the turnkey-solution-to-starting-your-own-business dept.

Rick Zeman writes "A Washington Post story details the relationships between phishers, IRC, plug-and-play phishing toolkits, and phantom web sites. 'For the past few months we've started to see phishing attacks from subcontractors, people who buy and use ready-made phishing toolkits and e-mail lists,' Orad said. 'It's gotten to the point where you don't need to know anything about spamming or computer programming to pull this off.'"

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  1. Re:Dear Ebay/PayPal user by stupidfoo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

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  2. Information Wants To Be Free by geomon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "I can't believe that people are allowed to do this kind of thing," she said. "Why can't [the authorities] do anything about this?"

    "Welcome to the world of information theft, ma'am". She should look carefully her hard drive and take notes of how many mp3 and mpeg files she has as she complains about theft. Perhaps she will take stock of any cavalier attitude she may have had regarding the protection of "online" property.

    I don't support the abusive tactics that the RIAA and the MPAA use to secure information about thieves, but their initial reaction to file sharing was probably the same as this woman's.

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