Phishing Scams Get Savvier: A new breed of sophisticated e-mail attack that is difficult to detect and defend against is further proof that cyber-criminals and scam artists are getting more serious about their efforts to steal information.
The new attack is an enhanced form of phishing, scams that are defined as attempts to steal credit card data and other sensitive information through social-engineering efforts. Phishing scams typically employ phony e-mail messages that purport to come from banks or popular Web sites such as eBay or PayPal. The messages try to lure recipients into entering account information and passwords into bogus forms hosted on malicious Web sites.
Sasser worm could hit hard today: The worm's impact is expected to peak today as millions of workers bring their laptops back to their offices after using them over the weekend to access the Internet from relatively unsecured home locations.
Microsoft rated the vulnerability exploited by the W32/Sasser A and Sasser B worms as critical, and security experts urged all users of vulnerable system to apply patches immediately.
