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- meeee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3lame article. wtf does 'hackers' have to do with spam?
- RichGC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This social engineering spam is certainly a proplem.
Since anyone can register a telephone number and a website now, the only viable way I can see of stopping this is to make a special telephone prefix ( +2265 ) and domain extension ( www.barclays.bank ) that all and only the official registered banks can use. - residual, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yea I'm not sure what attacks on VoIP have anything to do with Image spam? No dig.
- whiterajah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something that interests me is why the banks aren't smarter about their communications with customers. I actually got a call from my credit card company recently asking me to confirm personal information about my account. I refused, because there was no way to verify that the call was actually from them. When I called the number on my card, it turned out that the bank was indeed trying to get in touch with me, as a fraudulent transaction had been detected on one of my cards. It strikes me the banks need to work on ways that *us* to verify that *they* are who they say they are - the emphasis is always the other way round.
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The article also cites no actual cases of a phisher spoofing a bank's IVR system. Not saying it is beyond their means, just that this may be a theoretical threat at this time. It is also unclear how this differs from Web site phishing.
- Drull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've been getting tons of useless weird images spammed to me in my gmail, usually with incoherent wording, about weird subjects. Been getting this crap for only a few months now (before that, it was in large blocks of text below images.
Goddamn Internets - BlackPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hackers and spammers always attack the most most popular or soon-to-be massive communication technologies. This can only be expected, the number of spam emails would have risen with the number of people using email.
- ewheat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0no digg for the article, but a digg for rattus! UNF!@
- bigdave914, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0rattus ROCKS!
- rattus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am getting so tired of the security industry following each other into the weeds. Retards on mailing lists attempt to up their status by inventing terms for VOIP phishing and flavors of the same old thing that people have been doing for years under slightly different auspices.
So so predictable and boring.
Step one: people talk about their hack
Step two: sellouts report to people about some random hack
Step three: ivory tower lamers who do not work for a living write paper or post to mailing-lists and blogs about OMG THE NEW THREAT
Step four: industry says "OMG! WE MUST SPEND MADCASH ON NONEXISTANT PROBLEMS!"
Get a grip, people. There will always be lame confidence scams out there. Tools will lose their cash only for it to be refunded by banking insurance and institutional level antifraud. - tehpoutine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0idiocy of parent aside, it is a pretty lame article.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3"do hackers" not "does hackers" ...just saying, your lack of grammar along with your useless post add to spam on the Internet.
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