[pchelpers] News:Google, PayPal introduce political-phishing defenses
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PC-Helpers <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:24 +1300
January 31, 2008 7:03 AM PST
Posted by Chris Soghoian
In the last few months, both Google and eBay unit PayPal have quietly
rolled out new online-payment solutions that specifically target
Internet-based political-campaign contributions.
While the companies primarily pitch their new products as methods for
"attracting more supporters" and "increasing online giving to your
campaign," the Internet titans have also laid the groundwork for
phishing-resistant campaign contributions.
In a research paper released last year, Markus Jakobsson, Oliver
Friedrichs, and I wrote about the looming threat of phishing Web sites
posing as legitimate political-campaign sites.
The phishing problem is a particular threat to campaign sites, for a
number of reasons:
More here:
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9861853-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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