While the group may have obtained data from Medvedev's email accounts and iPhones, Nosik said some other phishing operation probably hacked the Twitter account, since the jokes seemed spontaneous and the damage was easy to reverse.
How to protect yourself from phishing.
Technology firms, which might be expected to know better, suffer more data breaches than those in other industries, or even the government.A popular trick used by black-hat and white-hat hackers alike is to send fake "phishing" e-mails, which seem to come from legitimate sources and ask a firm's employees to enter their usernames and passwords.
The software giant and the internet retailer filed several lawsuits that allege fraudulent use of the Amazon name for "spoofing"—sending deceptive marketing e-mails and "phishing"—atte-mails andobtain credit-card and other phishing detattempting tois spaceSir Richard Bransobtaintrain and plane entrepreneur, announced plans to take travellers a lot higher and a great deal more quickly.
In particular, "phishing"—fraudulent e-mails that try to trick users into divulging financial information by posing as well-known banks or websites such as eBay has grown enormously in the past year.In this section Boom and bust at sea Catering for suppliers' strikes Icahn's latest prey In search of the ideal employer The Malay way of business change Winning the war on spam Why wait for WiMax?
Penetration testers also known as "ethical hackers"—have long helped companies find holes in their code; these days bosses also want them to find out if employees will fall for phishing scams and whether intruders can access their server rooms.
Gartner, another research company, estimates that the use of "phishing", in which fraudulent emails are used to trick people into parting with credit-card and other personal details, cost American banks and credit-card companies $1.2 billion last year.
The system, in other words, should be able to anticipate, hunt down and kill computer viruses and worms all by itself; to tell spam from legitimate e-mail; and to prevent "phishing" and other data theft.A pinch of saltThe vision is shockingly ambitious.
Targets received plausible-seeming "phishing" e-mails, often sent from faked State Department addresses, with a subject line such as "Fw: Draft US-China joint statement" and an attachment.
