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Phishing

-- 10 Vendor Reports | 6 Products

ALSO CALLED: Email Spoofing, e-Mail Fraud, Spear Phishing, Password Phishing, Brand Spoofing, Email Fraud, e-Mail Spoofing, Social Engineering, Internet Phishing, Carding, Password Cracking, and Spear-phishing
DEFINITION: E-mail spoofing is the forgery of an e-mail header so that the message appears to have originated from someone or somewhere other than the actual source. Distributors of spam often use spoofing in an attempt to get recipients to open, and possibly even respond to, their solicitations. Spoofing can be used legitimately. Classic examples of senders who might prefer to disguise the source of the e-mail  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Phishing
Top Benefits of Symantec Protection Suite
sponsored by Symantec Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Anti-virus is not enough to protect your organization. Symantec now offers multi-layered protection from endpoint to gateway in the new Symantec Protection Suite. Download this paper to find out 10 reasons that this new product suite is the one you can trust for your organization.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009
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Online Dating: Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators
sponsored by iovation, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper will help you understand what new and innovative techniques can be used to protect the reputation of your business, keep your members in a safe and trusted environment, while keeping the fraudsters out. Device fingerprinting helps identify the bad guys so sites can eliminate their accounts from the network once and for all.
Posted: 09 Jun 2009 | Published: 09 Jun 2009
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GFI WebMonitor - Web security for the ISA Server
sponsored by GFI Software Ltd.
TRIAL SOFTWARE: GFI WebMonitor controls your Internet users' browsing habits through web categorization and web filtering, covering over 165,000,000 URLs. It also monitors downloads in real-time, protecting your network from viruses, malware and phishing attacks.
Posted: 28 May 2009 | Published: 28 May 2009
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The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2008: Annual Report
sponsored by Breach Security
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about the Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID). The WHID's purpose is to serve as a tool for raising awareness of web application security problems and provide information for statistical analysis of incidents.
Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 Feb 2009
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To Trust or Not - Top 10 Security Risks for Unwary Employees
sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER: To eliminate the gray area of what your employees should and should not trust, know your web defense. This short paper provides a Top 10 list of risks that your employees may assume they can trust but your web defense should not.
Posted: 15 May 2009 | Published: 15 May 2009
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Protection in Numbers with the WebPulse Community Watch Cloud Service
sponsored by Blue Coat
WEBCAST: Web malware has changed the playing field making traditional URL filtering and anti-virus solutions with daily updates less effective. Learn why and what you should change in this valuable webinar.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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TechTalk: Stop Malware at the Web Gateway
sponsored by Blue Coat
WEBCAST: Safeguarding your data from malware and other Web threats takes a layered approach. In this TechTalk webinar Blue Coat Technical Marketing Engineers will lead a discussion on how the Blue Coat ProxyAV works with the ProxySG to create a community-watch based security.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Free Trial of Sophos Enterprise Solutions
sponsored by Sophos Inc.
TRIAL SOFTWARE: Try Enterprise Security and Control for 30 days. Experience the strength and simplicity of our Enterprise Security and Control range. Free 30-day trials include automatic updates and access to 24/7 technical support.
Posted: 15 Apr 2009 | Published: 15 Apr 2009
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State of the Internet Security: Protecting Business Email
sponsored by Webroot Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The report discusses these attacks in-depth while also offering helpful information on legal compliance, internal sabotage and the type of protection you need to keep your business safe from attack.
Posted: 14 Jan 2009 | Published: 14 Jan 2009
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The Alarming Shift in Cybercrime: How Organized Attacks Now Target Your Wallet
sponsored by Blue Coat
WHITE PAPER: This paper will examine the shift in the nature of cybercrimes, how the thieves target their victims, and what can be done to prevent them.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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PHISHING DEFINITION (continued): …  include a sender reporting mistreatment by a spouse to a welfare agency or a "whistle-blower" who fears retaliation. However, spoofing anyone other than yourself is illegal in some jurisdictions. E-mail spoofing is possible because Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), the main protocol used in sending e-mail, does not include an authentication mechanism. Although an SMTP service extension (specified in IETF RFC 2554) allows an SMTP client to negotiate a security level with a mail server, this precaution is not often taken. If the precaution is not taken, anyone with the requisite knowledge … 
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