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The Phishermen are Reeling in Record Catches |
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No matter what expert you go to - phishing keeps increasing, both in the number of attacks and the amount of money stolen.
An example of this would be a recent story by Robert McMillian of IDG News Service. His story - quoting Gartner (a computer security research firm) - shows the dollar value has gone from $256.00 to $1244.00 per incident. Gartner is also claiming that the number of people victimized has risen from 1.9 million to 3.5 million. While most of the statistics are going up - there is one that isn’t - the number of people recovering their money, which has gone down from 80 percent to 54 percent.
Please note, these are U.S. estimates - and to the best of my knowledge - the U.S. isn’t the only one suffering.
McMillian’s article also quoted Paul Laudanski (CastleCops and PIRT) as stating:
Read more here.
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