or how to stop your resources being used by phishers!

An attacker will use a number of different resources when performing a phishing attack. Typically, this will include a “bot net” of compromised PCs to send out the phishing email, a compromised web server (or just a phishing friendly server) to host the phishing site. But they could also use resources from your website!

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Get the bait out - it’s phishing season

At the start of July we saw an to end to World Cup and all that football fever, along with this, spam levelled off, and virus activity was low. With the launch of the Internet Defence Phishery this month, the quantity of phishing attacks is far easier to see than ever before. In the late July sun, the smell from the phishery, as well the temperature, was rising as a vast amount of new phishes came into the phishery to be processed [ed: I think she means that there was a massive volume of phishing emails sent out, targetting a number of instutitions in the last weekend of July].

The US is back at numero uno for spam, viruses and phishing emails. Bleh.

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Phew. I got back from my holiday - a lovely cruise on the adriatic, to find that the sea had been following me home. Well, judging from the amount of phishes that started last weekend, it felt like it. For a time, nearly every spam was a phishing email. A real torrent. I’ll let a picture tell the story:
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The ISC’s Tip of the Day advises you to Turn off your computer.
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The second in ISC’s ‘Tip for the Day’ is a proposal to remove your default gateway.

Removing the default gateway is an original idea, but it is a move has it’s pro’s and con’s and we think it’s more of a ‘hack’ (in the technical sense) than a real solution.
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The Internet Storm Center has begun the month with a series of security tips, in what may inevitably be called August - Security Tip Month - an article regarding the use of strong passwords.
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