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Monday May 23, 2005
Hackers use new tricks to steal IDs
Tactics known as 'pharming' and 'evil twins' among latest schemes used to con users into
supplying personal data over Web
Phishing is so 2004. This year's new Web threats are "pharming" and "evil twins."
Many consumers have grown savvy to "phishing" scams, which use fake e-mails that appear to come from banks or other businesses to con
recipients into supplying personal data over the Web.
So fraudsters have come up with new tricks to steal identities online that are even harder to detect. Security experts say two of these
scams with some of the most damaging potential are called evil twins and pharming.
Evil twins are wireless networks that pretend to offer trusty Wi-Fi connections to the Internet like those available at some coffee
shops, hotels and conferences. On a laptop screen, an evil-twin Wi-Fi hotspot can look identical to one of the tens of thousands of
legitimate public networks that consumers log on to every day, sometimes even copying the sign-in page. But that's just a front, and
fraudsters who set up the connections attempt to capture any passwords or credit-card numbers that consumers using the link may type.
Read full article at:
Sun-Sentinel.com
Author: Kevin J. Delaney
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