‘Phishing’ scams on the rise, survey finds. Next I expect to see an article about how water is still wet.

Over 157,000 unique phishing messages were sent out around the world in the first half of 2006, an increase of 81 percent compared with the six-month period to end-December 2005…. according to the bi-annual Internet Security Threat Report from security software vendor Symantec.

I guess Symantec has to do something to drum up business. After all, they’ve already warned customers will have a hard time getting their software security to work with Windows Vista thanks to Vista’s enhanced Security Center and PatchGuard features.

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  1. Dawn Duenow says:

    Wow!, this was a high quality post. In principle I might like to jot down like this too – taking time and real effort to make a good article… but what can I say… I procrastinate quite a bit and never seem to get one thing carried out

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