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Keeping Up with the Phish: Best Practices to Minimize Phishing Pitfalls

In a few years, phishing has gone from a largely unknown Internet crime to one of the most prevalent, with increasingly sophisticated and creative attacks targeting even the smallest of credit unions. In fact, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a global pan-industrial and law enforcement association focused on eliminating fraud and...

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FORT WORTH, Texas — In a few years, phishing has gone from a largely unknown Internet crime to one of the most prevalent, with increasingly sophisticated and creative attacks targeting even the smallest of credit unions. In fact, the Anti-Phishing Working Group, a global pan-industrial and law enforcement association focused on eliminating fraud and identity theft that result from phishing, reports that unique phishing site URLs went up 757% between Oct. 2005 and Oct. 2006. The burden of dealing with these attacks has grown from a simple nuisance to an overwhelming maintenance issue.

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