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Phishing Predators Target Smaller Companies
Smaller organizations are beginning to feel the reel of phishers as attacks continue to move downstream. Gone are the days when phishing attacks would only affect the large banks, ISPs and online retailers of the world. Instead, small institutions are being targeted, and the bait being used is a sophisticated combination of phishing and hacking.
According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), a global pan-industrial and law enforcement association chartered to eliminate phishing, pharming and email spoofing, phishing attacks have reached an all-time high. In November 2005, 16,882 attacks were reported up from 8,975 in November 2004.
One of the primary reasons for the severe increase in phishing activity among smaller organizations is because phishers believe they do not have the resources, knowledge or personnel to protect or react to these phishing attempts. A great number of larger companies have already been targeted and therefore have implemented countermeasures.
Any kind of institution with customer accounts has to be vigilant in counterphishing measures in order to preserve its reputation and stay competitive,” said Jon Ramsey, chief technology officer at SecureWorks. SecureWorks, which protects the corporate networks, servers and email environments of over 1,200 financial institutions, utility companies and hospitals worldwide, has seen first hand the growth and increased sophistication of phishing attacks against its smaller clients. In the past four months alone, SecureWorks has taken down 21 phishing scams, and SecureWorks analysts estimate that this accounts for only a portion of the attacks that have actually occurred since many of them go unreported.
News Roundup
SecureWorks’ Network
Intrusion Prevention Appliance, iSensor V5.3 Receives
NSS Certification
NSS Group, the world’s
foremost independent security testing organization, gave
its stamp of approval on SecureWorks’ iSensor® V5.3
after a rigorous, year-long certification process.
Headquartered in Great Britain with testing facilities in France, the NSS Group tested the iSensor for eight days and concluded that it performed consistently and reliably throughout the testing period. “Under eight hours of extended attack (comprising millions of exploits mixed with genuine traffic) it continued to block 100 percent of attack traffic, whilst passing 99.999 percent of legitimate traffic (an average of two legitimate sessions out of a total 300,000 were blocked)… Resistance to all evasion techniques was excellent and throughput and latency were excellent…” said Bob Walder, director of the NSS Group security testing labs. For more information on the NSS certification, or SecureWorks’ iSensor® click on the link below.
Voice over Internet
Protocol – How to Protect Yourself
More and
more companies are switching to voice over internet
protocol (VoIP) to use an Internet connection for making
telephone calls. Instead of relying on an analog line
like traditional telephones, VoIP uses digital
technology and requires a high-speed broadband
connection like cable or DSL. Because VoIP relies on
your Internet connection, it could also be vulnerable to
the threats that your computer faces like viruses and
other malicious code.
For more information
contact:
info@secureworks.com
or 877-905-6661.
SecureWorks Attack
Chart
The attack chart below represents the
trend of network attacks SecureWorks has seen in the
month of January for all its clients.
