Aloha and Welcome to Today’s WOW Technology Minute
Phishing, that’s fishing with a “Ph” is when someone creates a phony Web site to lure you into sharing your personal data. They steal money from surfers and that sucks, with an “S”.
They will get caught Neil Holloway has anything to do with it. He’s the president of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and he recently unveiled a global law enforcement campaign that will target cybercriminals behind these phishing attacks. By the end of June 2006 Microsoft will have initiated legal actions on more than 100 cases against individuals suspected of committing online fraud; 53 of these will have already started by the end of March 2006.
The legal actions are linked to a larger Microsoft program, the Global Phishing Enforcement Initiative (GPEI) and has already taken down 4,744 phishing sites. Look for the new Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7. That’s fishing with a “Ph”…
From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii, this is Brent Norris for The World Organization of Webmasters and The WOW Technology Minute.