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Phishing scams harder to pull off, group says

Author: computerworld.com Published: 13th Oct 2005 Visited: 150 times

Category: Security

Phishing sites trying to illegally scam sensitive data from unsuspecting users are being taken down faster, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group. But phishers are setting up more sites and using more-advanced techniques to survive.

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