Archive for April 9th, 2004

A Demonstration Of The Next Generation Of ‘Phishing’ Attacks

Friday, April 9th, 2004

[this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

If you’ve been on the internet for any length of time at all, you’ll probably have come accross the concept of a phishing [wikipedia] attack, or even been the target of one. The idea is that Joe Naughty sends you an e-mail, pretending to be your bank, credit card company, or whatever, and when you c…