Thursday, October 9, 2008
As business mobility increases, the need to protect workers against the risk of identity theft and fraud escalates significantly, it has been claimed.
In a recent report, CNBC pointed out that criminals are developing increasingly complex phishing scams in order to glean sensitive information from unwitting web users.
One increasingly common phishing scam is the use of the Limbo trojan, web security expert Uri Rivner told the broadcaster.
The attack works by infiltrating machines and then hijacking web browsers when visiting legitimate sites such as banks or email providers and using them to request that users input valuable information that would not normally be required.
"If your bank all of a sudden is asking you for a lot of sensitive data rather than just your username and password... that's a sign you have a trojan," Rivner advised.
According to research by Gartner, more than 3.6 million adults in the US fell victim to phishing scams over the course of 2007.
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