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PC Magazine August 3, 2005 Larry Seltzer	Phighting Phraud When you confront cyber scams, you need all the support you can get. These toolbars can help.
InternetNews June 3, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Opera Patches URL-Spoofing Flaw The browser's shortcut icon feature could be manipulated to trick Web surfers into revealing personal information.
InternetNews November 15, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Our Phishing Filter is Better Than Yours! It took a few months, but Mozilla now has its own study claiming filter superiority.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Paul McFedries	Gone Phishin' Microsoft is right to include antiphishing technology in Internet Explorer 7, because clearly we need all the help we can get.
InternetNews January 6, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	EBay, PayPal Rank High on Phish Lists According to year-end 2005 data from research firm Netcraft, eBay and PayPal were the top phishing targets representing 62 percent of attacks.
PC World February 21, 2007 Erik Larkin	Don't Let Bad Guys Pose as You Flaws let attackers trick a Web site into providing your personal information.
PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Robert Lemos	Caught by Phish Falling prey to online identity theft takes only a few minutes, but the cost can be high.
InternetNews November 28, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Catches Phishing Flaw in Appliances Security experts are warning the computing world about a new security vulnerability in Google's Search Appliance and Google Mini device that may yield more phishing attacks.
Searcher October 2007 Paul S. Piper	Phish Pharming: A Newer, More Profitable Aquaculture Detecting e-mail scams.
InternetNews November 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Can You Spot The Phish Attack? According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the time.
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MasterCard, Others Plug Script Injection Leak Credit card giant MasterCard is among many online financial institutions rushing to fix Web site design security flaws.
InternetNews October 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Another Bug Bites IE7 Yet another bug has been found in Microsoft's recently-released Internet Explorer 7 browser.
PC World March 2005 Andrew Brandt	Devious New Phishing Attack Outsmarts Typical Defenses A vulnerability in Windows lets phishers hijack your browser--even when you type the URL yourself.
PC World March 2005 Scott Spanbauer	Paranoia: The Best Defense Against E-Mail Attacks Criminals may attempt to spread a virus to your computer or hijack your bank account using deceptive e-mails. You can learn to spot e-mail cons by using a handful of investigative techniques and a boatload of common sense.
PC World March 2003 Scott Spanbauer	Internet Tips: Unlocking the Mysteries of Browser Error Messages Steer past 404 errors to find the Web page you want; disable IE's script-debugging messages.
InternetNews July 5, 2005 Tim Gray	Next Stop For Google Toolbar: Mozilla's Firefox Mozilla browser's latest accessory: the Google toolbar.
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PC Magazine January 18, 2006 Ryan Naraine	IE Flaw Exposes Google Desktop A design flaw in Internet Explorer could give malicious hackers an easy way to use Google Desktop to hijack user information.
Fast Company August 2004 Scott Kirsner	Something Phish-y Fighting phishing, the online scam that could leave you with a big hole in your pocket.
InternetNews February 23, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	IE Phishing Exploit Reported A new potential phishing attack vector was revealed this week that might put Microsoft Internet Explorer users at risk if they're not careful.
InternetNews May 30, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote Mozilla has reached the latest development milestone for its next-generation Firefox 2.0 "Bon Echo" browser with a little anti-phishing help from Google.
PC World February 26, 2007 Robert McMillan	Phishing Sites Explode on the Web Online criminals are thriving even in the face of new automated defenses.
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InternetNews February 21, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Google Fixes Dangerous Desktop Flaw Integrating Web and desktop creates "perfect storm" for future flaws, researcher says.
PC Magazine February 14, 2007 Larry Seltzer	PDF Flaw Revealed Adobe Acrobat software lets parameters be passed to the software when a PDF file is opened. Generally speaking, this is helpful... Avoid scams when selling items online... Bank of America Online security update...
InternetNews August 20, 2009	Study Claims IE Tops Rivals in Security A new Microsoft-sponsored study from NSS Labs is out with a finding that IE 8 is the most secure browser, when it comes to catching, socially engineered malware. The study however did not look at the security of the browser or related plug-ins.
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InternetNews February 15, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	IE 7.0: Missing the Search Boat? Gates promised a browser update with more holes plugged. But the biggest hole is not in security - it's in search advertising.
InternetNews March 7, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	DNS-Based Phishing Attacks on The Rise Phishers are using a pair of DNS exploits to help give them the illusion of credible domains.
InternetNews December 21, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Malware Now Hiding As Google Toolbar Buttons It looks like a Toolbar add-on. It installs like a Google app. But it's not a Google Toolbar button - it's malicious code pretending to be legit.
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PC World February 2005 Steve Fox	Bye-Bye, Big Blue; Hello, Lenovo? Big Blue Stops Building PCs... New Netscape... A Neo Clio... New Threat: Trickier Phishing... etc.
PC Magazine August 17, 2004	The Lookout: URL Parsing Bug A bug in fully patched versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer allows violations of the Web browser's security zones.
InternetNews July 21, 2006 Brian Livingston	Phishing Filter Prevents E-Mail Identity Theft Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have figured out a way to almost entirely detect and filter out phishing e-mails.
Bank Technology News November 2006 Glen Fest	Phishing: URL Deceit: Who's on The Beat? The 'Citibank.com' domain name is available to anybody who wants it (including phishers). Is a free market in all domain names a common good?
PC World December 2004 Bob Tedeschi	Protect Your Identity Phishers and other online thieves are targeting your money and personal data--and they're getting sneakier. Here's how to defend yourself, and how to erase the damage if you get scammed.
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Phishing Attacks Jump 42 Percent An anti-phishing group says scam e-mails that seek users' personal information increased sharply last month. The types of attacks are also expanding. The United States had the most phishing sites, with China and South Korea placing second and third, respectively.
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Tim Gray	Mozilla Updates Firefox Firefox 1.0.1 addresses numerous security vulnerabilities and approximately 40 other browser fixes.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 Jim Wagner	Microsoft's Three-Pronged Phish Attack Microsoft has partnered with three phishing data providers to expand the filtering technology in its products.
PC World January 24, 2007 Scott Spanbauer	Thwart the Three Biggest Internet Threats of 2007 Protect yourself against the three gravest Web dangers: Internet Explorer, phishing attacks, and malware.
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The Motley Fool December 6, 2006 Seth Jayson	Reputation and Reality Things are not always what they appear to be. Even when a story is repeated so often that it becomes the default wisdom, it may not be true. And those are the kinds of informational inefficiencies that can produce both opportunities and risks when you invest.
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