Is your Phishing toolbar really reliable?
Identity theft is on the rise, daily, and many of these attacks are done in combination with Spam Attacks as well as Phishing. Vishing, another new phenomena, is also increasing seen in the information security industry.
So what exactly is Vishing? Vishing is the notion where someone calls you, claiming to be from a bank, and gives you a specific URL by phone, to login to change your password. Or they could even be asking you to change your password via phone (meaning asking you to tell them ur current password).
Some crafty individuals, even go to the extend of telling you that there were many phishing emails sent out, thus to protect bank customers, the bank had decided to engage their company's service to call customers to alert them about it and advice them to change their passwords over the phone.
Well, we cannot prevent these, as identity thieves are getting creatives by the day. At best, we can mitigate the risks.
Some of us might turn to solutions such as Anti-Phishing filters. But just exactly how accurate are they? I happen to come across a research paper, done by 4 students from the CyLab in Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), focusing on which anti-phishing tool is really useful, and which ones cases more harm then good.
http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/files/cmucylab06018.pdf
Read the complete post at http://darrensim.com/blogs/techbits/archive/2006/11/30/is-your-phishing-toolbar-really-reliable.aspx