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InternetNews October 4, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Yahoo, eBay, PayPal Partner to Fight Phishing In advance of the holiday season, three Net giants aim to stem fraudulent e-mails.
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari	PayPal Rings Up Two-Factor Security PayPal customers can now use their cell phones to authenticate their transactions through a new service that lets customers use SMS messaging to get a randomly-generated access code to log into their accounts.
PC Magazine February 15, 2006 Robert Lemos	Caught by Phish Falling prey to online identity theft takes only a few minutes, but the cost can be high.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	eBay Goes Phishing The popular online auction site rolls out a new approach in tackling account hackers: Cut bait.
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InternetNews November 19, 2004 Chris Nerney	A Costly Identity Crisis If it seems to you that the phishing/spam problem has gotten worse lately, it (unfortunately) isn't your imagination.
PC World February 26, 2007 Robert McMillan	Phishing Sites Explode on the Web Online criminals are thriving even in the face of new automated defenses.
Fast Company July 2000 Gina Imperato	Time to Pay Up, Pal Click Here: Making payments just got easier.
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InternetNews November 19, 2007	PayPal Offers Secure Way to Shop Non-PayPal Sites PayPal takes a cue from Google Checkout by offering a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don't accept PayPal directly.
U.S. Banker August 2001 Mark Bruno.	PayPal Slapped with Suit, as Bidville Cries Foul PayPal, the Web's largest person-to-person electronic payments company, has been accused of fraud, defamation and breach of contract.
InternetNews January 30, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	ID Theft And Internet Fraud Declining? New studies indicate that the Internet isn't as dangerous as other places.
Fast Company August 2004 Scott Kirsner	Something Phish-y Fighting phishing, the online scam that could leave you with a big hole in your pocket.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Don't Give Away Your Identity! Disguised con artists want your personal information -- and you may be offering it to them.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2006 Seth Jayson	Reputation and Reality Things are not always what they appear to be. Even when a story is repeated so often that it becomes the default wisdom, it may not be true. And those are the kinds of informational inefficiencies that can produce both opportunities and risks when you invest.
Bank Technology News April 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Goin' Phishing Growing e-mail attacks threaten banks' bottom lines
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InternetNews August 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Mass Action on PayPal Settlement Site Attorney-run site is overwhelmed by demand, plagued by phishing fears in wake of PayPal class action suit.
Bank Technology News November 2006 Glen Fest	Phishing: URL Deceit: Who's on The Beat? The 'Citibank.com' domain name is available to anybody who wants it (including phishers). Is a free market in all domain names a common good?
InternetNews May 14, 2010	Facebook's Become a Phisher's Playground Facebook has plenty of security problems of its own making to resolve and, in the interim, professional cyber-thieves are exploiting other vulnerabilities.
InternetNews August 20, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Phishers Are Getting Together Free 'phishing kits' on the Web are making this scam easier than ever.
InternetNews November 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Can You Spot The Phish Attack? According to data from e-mail security firm MailFrontier, only 4 percent of users can spot a phished e-mail 100 percent of the time.
PC World July 2002 Tom Mainelli	Consumer Alert: PayPal's Problems Customer service woes continue to plague popular payment service.
InternetNews November 9, 2006	Scammers Hooking Bigger Phish Fewer people fell victim to phishing attacks this year than last, but those who did were scammed for far more dough, Gartner says.
The Motley Fool February 7, 2006 Alyce Lomax	A Penny for Your Thoughts Time Warner's AOL and Yahoo!, both major providers of email services, are gearing up to try a new tactic -- giving companies the option of paying a small fee to, in effect, "certify" their email deliveries. For many companies, the plan may be the smartest way to make users feel secure.
Entrepreneur December 2006 Janelle Elms	Gone Phishing Use eBay's security measures to avoid falling prey to online scams.
InternetNews April 22, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Who's Taking the Bait: 'Phishing' Skyrockets Online security groups say the scamming technique used for identity theft is proliferating as fast as viruses, with attacks up over a thousand percent since September.
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InternetNews March 3, 2005 Roy Mark	New Senate Bill Looks to Hook Phishers The Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 targets both the e-mail bait and the Web site switch by entering two new crimes into the U.S. Code.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 Jim Wagner	Microsoft's Three-Pronged Phish Attack Microsoft has partnered with three phishing data providers to expand the filtering technology in its products.
The Motley Fool August 17, 2005 Dayana Yochim	Go Phish Online scamsters are spawning at alarming rates. Anything rotting in your hard drive? Here are tips on thwarting scammers' advances.
InternetNews November 15, 2006 Brian Livingston	Can You Prove Your E-Mail Isn't Spam? If your company isn't taking a few simple steps to demonstrate the emails its sending aren't spam, many recipients are filtering them right into the trash.
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InternetNews March 20, 2006 Clint Boulton	Microsoft Looks to Give Phishers The Hook Microsoft has begun waging a war overseas against perpetrators who steal money by using the Internet to trick people into giving up their personal information.
Bank Technology News October 2001 Karen Epper Hoffman	PayPal Still Running Free But the e-payments company's carefree days may be numbered if regulators decide it's essentially a bank...
Information Today June 2005 Phillip Britt	No Phishing Allowed Today, the biggest threats for companies and consumers are the new crimes with funny-looking names: phishing, pharming, and spim.
InternetNews June 8, 2009 Alex Goldman	Symantec Says Phishers Have New Tools Automated toolkits are making it easier to attack services such as Facebook, Twitter and financial services brands.
Bank Technology News October 2007 Glen Fest	Phishing: McPhishers: Criminals Evolve Wholesaling Models Even as banks settle into two-factor authentication and their fraud- fighting tools gain some moxy, phishers across the globe are still having phun, phun, phun.
Information Today April 2008 Phillip Brett	Tax Time: Phishing Scams and Schemes And as the buzz surrounding online tax filing increases, so do the odds of getting scammed. Phishing scams abound that mimic IRS notices to try to get bank account and other personal information.
InternetNews October 10, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	EBay Buys VeriSign's Payment Gateway Unit PayPal division will acquire VeriSign unit that handled $40 billion in payments in 2004.
InternetNews January 28, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	eBay's PayPal Scoops Up Fraud Sciences On Monday, eBay announced that its PayPal payment-services unit would acquire Fraud Services, a privately held Israeli company, for $169 million.
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