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Google goes spear phishing on MySpace
Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 10:13 AM EST
If it seems like every Tom, Dick and Harry with a MySpace account was getting his account hijacked a couple of months ago there's a reason. Starting in mid-March, the number of page views generated on phish sites increased five-fold, with almost all (95 per cent) targeting the popular social networking site.
The revelation, included in an entry on Google's Online Security blog, bolsters other research suggesting social networks are a growing target of phishers.
At The Register.
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