Hi-tech tools fuel phishing boom
October was a bumper month for phishing attacks that try to prise confidential information out of web users.
In October the number of websites staging such attacks doubled, reports the Anti-Phishing Working Group.
The group suspects that new tools which automate attacks are behind this huge increase.
Many of the sites trying to con people into handing over personal information are being hosted on hijacked home computers. ...
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