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Bank Technology News April 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Goin' Phishing Growing e-mail attacks threaten banks' bottom lines
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Bank Systems & Technology June 26, 2006 Nancy Feig	In E-Mail We Trust In an effort to improve the safety of online banking for its customers, KeyBank recently began piloting an e-mail certification service from Mountain View, Calif.-based Goodmail Systems.
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InternetNews June 23, 2005 Roy Mark	Confidence in E-Commerce Waning Gartner survey shows one of out three Internet users buying less online, largely because of concerns over data security.
InternetNews May 6, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	The Cost of Phishing Hits $1.2 Billion The wider impact to the enterprise is an erosion of consumer trust, a new Gartner research study suggests.
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.
Bank Technology News September 2006 Glen Fest	Site Authentication: Making Sites Spoof Proof An interoperability project by the FSTC aims to standardize how banks validate their sites to users.
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.
InternetNews July 13, 2005 Tim Gray	Sender ID Gets Notice Vendors meet in New York to address the ever popular issue of e-mail security. Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco all have new online solutions.
InternetNews July 11, 2005 Jim Wagner	Yahoo, Cisco Merge E-Mail Specs Yahoo and Cisco merged their e-mail authentication specification.
InternetNews May 13, 2010	APWG Fingers 'Avalanche' Phishing Syndicate The Anti-Phishing Working Group says one highly sophisticated and well-organized group of cyber thieves was responsible for a huge spike in phishing attacks late last year.
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InternetNews May 25, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Standards Group OKs E-Mail Validation Spec The Internet Engineering Task Force has adopted a vendor-developed specification designed to detect e-mail with bogus header information. The technology could help reduce spam and phishing attacks that clog Internet traffic.
U.S. Banker February 2005 Michael Sisk	A Phish Story Phishing attacks (in which thieves send mass e-mails supposedly from reputable businesses) are expected to more than double in 2005, and are spreading to small banks.
Information Today June 2005 Phillip Britt	No Phishing Allowed Today, the biggest threats for companies and consumers are the new crimes with funny-looking names: phishing, pharming, and spim.
InternetNews December 6, 2004 Tim Gray	Phishing Grows with Holiday Shopping Spike Attacks jumped 80 percent in November and now target the workplace.
Bank Systems & Technology July 28, 2006 Gregg Keizer	Phishers Beat Citibank's Two-Factor Authentication Nearly three-dozen phishing Web sites have targeted Citibank business customers with a new scheme that circumvents two-factor authentication.
InternetNews April 20, 2005 Tim Gray	AOL, Cyota Join Forces to Fight Phishing AOL will use the service to protect users by identifying and blocking sites posing as legitimate businesses.
InternetNews August 1, 2006 Michael Hickins	The Word on E-mail Authentication In a step that should help slash the volume of unwanted and pernicious e-mail, a group developing technical specs for the e-mail authentication standard DKIM, has just completed a major portion of its work.
PC Magazine September 28, 2005 Sharon Terdeman	Spear-phishing on the Rise As if there weren't enough threats to have to watch out for, a variation on phishing that targets employees at specific organizations merits notice.
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.
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Brian Grow	How To Harpoon A Cyber Shark New technology could thwart phish e-mails that seek consumers' private data.
InternetNews February 14, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	IronPort Offers Web-Based Threat Lookup E-mail security firm IronPort begins offering public report detailing latest e-mail trends and threats.
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InternetNews June 16, 2004 Clint Boulton	ID Theft Costs Victims $2.4B in One Year New Gartner research says millions are duped by online fraudsters through scams such as phishing.
InternetNews June 8, 2004 Roy Mark	Spam-Fighting Theories Far From Practice Gartner says filters, sender authentication-reputation initiatives not likely to provide short-term relief.
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 26, 2007 Robert McMillan	Phishing Sites Explode on the Web Online criminals are thriving even in the face of new automated defenses.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Philip E. Ross	Loser: Microsoft to Spammers: Go Phish Microsoft's new Sender ID technology quarantines unwanted e-mail, but can it tell the healthy from the sick?
Bank Technology News April 2005 John Adams	The Cost of Doing Business The debate over multi-factor authentication for electronic transactions is growing louder, and many say industry-wide use is virtually inevitable for banks. So why is almost nobody doing it?
InternetNews June 22, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	MasterCard Charges Phishers The credit card company does its part to combat phishing phenomenon.
Entrepreneur July 2005 Amanda C. Kooser	Pharm's Way Learn how to protect yourself from the latest internet attack, pharming, which can lead to hijacked accounts or identity theft.
Bank Systems & Technology November 1, 2005 Steven Marlin	Defending the New Frontier An interview with Matthew Speare, Chief Information Security Officer at M&T Bank on the greatest security threats to banks and what banks to do to fight back.
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Bank Systems & Technology August 5, 2004 Thomas Claburn	MasterCard Goes Fishing For Phishers MasterCard will use NameProtect's technology to detect online scams as they unfold and, in conjunction with law-enforcement organizations, shut them down.
InternetNews February 28, 2006 Roy Mark	AOL Takes Phishers to Court Using Virginia's first-in-the-nation anti-phishing law, America Online filed three civil lawsuits today seeking $18 million in damages against unidentified phishers.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Phishers Are Getting Together Free 'phishing kits' on the Web are making this scam easier than ever.
InternetNews March 25, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Phishing Attacks Jump 26% Phishers and pharmers up attacks, perhaps in response to decreased results.
InternetNews August 24, 2005 Jim Wagner	MSN Billing Phisher Arrested The FBI arrests an Iowa man they believe responsible for a number of phishing attacks targeting MSN customers.
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InternetNews December 6, 2005	Holiday Joy and Fear of E-mail Scams E-mail identification company Iconix this week introduced its "Checking It Twice" program to help consumers identify which of those holiday e-mail messages are safe to open, hoping to help shield Internet users from e-mail scams such as phishing attacks.