No phishing allowed.(protecting customer information from phishing, pharming, and spim)

From: Information Today | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Britt, Phillip | Copyright information

What's one of the biggest challenges in protecting customer information today? According to security experts, it's the expanding knowledge of criminals who are trying to get information. A few years ago, a company's biggest worry was a hacker trying to crack into its systems. Today, the biggest threats for companies and consumers are the new crimes with funny-looking names: phishing, pharming, and spim.

Phishing has become the most prevalent Internet security threat in ...

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