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» 25 April 2010

Security firms plan to educate against phishing attacks

An assembly of people concerned in fighting and eradicating online phishing plans a session for teaching web users. The group called Anti-Phishing Working Group or APWG is currently advocating a movement regarding education of innocent online users against credit card data stealing that is bothering the online community as of the present.

APWG decided to imitate the frequently used tactics by the online crooks when it comes to stealing confidential data. This will be used in promoting the awareness of the users in order to protect them from becoming victims of the online phishing attacks.

Identical method to teach naïve users

The movement that is being sponsored by the group center focuses chiefly on ismycreditcardstolen.com, a fake site that monitors credit cards. This website is designed in a way that it can detect credit card details that are already taken by unknown online crooks. The users can check it by inputting the important details of their credit cards. And then, upon keying in the confidential information associated with ones credit card, the page will automatically redirect. It will be stated on the new page that the user did not pass the test of safeguarding the secret data.

In addition to the previous words, the user will also be informed that the data of the credit card are not transferred upon accessing the submit button of the previous page. However, the web user must not rely on the said declaration without any clarification.

The user who accessed the said page must also ask a friend, who is knowledgeable about technical stuffs, in order to confirm the facts on hand. This is needed because the person already has the experience of being scammed.

Spreading the page so as to involve more users

So as to include more people in this movement for security awareness, the page is now being distributed through the postings within the popular micro-blogging service, Twitter.

But then, online users might no longer see the specific page. The anti-phishing system of Mozilla took charge and blocked the page after receiving several reports regarding the given domain. The reports considered the page as nothing but just an online fraud.

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