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The anti phishing working group (APWG) launched a new best practice guide for registrars today, aimed at making it more difficult for online criminals to register domains for purposes such as creating phishing sites. Anti-Phishing Working Group wants input before its eCrime conference The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is hosting a half-day roundtable event to discuss new strategies aimed at increasing awareness of phishing schemes. The number of phishing URLs used to spread "crimeware" among consumer PCs rose to an all-time high in May, according to a report from an industry association that works to eliminate identity theft and fraud caused by phishing and email spoofing. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has announced that it will share information and analysis on phishing attacks and trends stored in a central database that will be launched in July. Customers of Salesforce.com are facing a barrage of phishing emails containing viruses and keyloggers after the company suffered the leak of a customer contact list. A record number of websites are hosting keylogging malware to steal sensitive personal information, new figures show. Record levels of for-profit malware found. Criminals skirting security measures, says anti-phishing head. Australian IT professionals will have an opportunity to discuss critical security issues with security experts during AusCERT2007. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) announced today that it will join representatives from the financial services and law enforcement communities to host the Counter eCrime Operations Summit later this month. The number of phishing attacks have soared to a new high in the last year, according to a new report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Two security firms have teamed up in a bid to create an anti-phishing task force of volunteers to help consumers and businesses combat phishing scams and online identity theft. Almost a third of phishing attacks during February were generated by technically unskilled individuals using so-called script kiddie kits, new monitoring data has revealed. More than 20 percent of email users receive more than five phishing emails every day, according to a new report. AOL is using the long net of the law to snag three “phishing gangs” from the wild. A consortium dedicated to fighting phishing has expanded its efforts to take on new types of online identity theft. Delivery of phishing emails rose 42 percent in January, as internet criminals attack more companies and compromise more computers worldwide, a new report reveals. An American and a Scotsman have been jailed for their part in an international phishing scam that netted the pair $11 million dollars (£6.5 million). The men now face a total of ten years in prison. Richard E. Mackey Jr and Jonathan G. Gossels explain why they are not convinced by the FDIC’s recent report on two-factor authentication