A new warning has been issued by online gambling portals concerning Neteller users. Criminal fraudsters are again trying to fraudulently persuade online clients of the e-cash processor Neteller to reveal their account details on a fake Neteller site.

This week several portals were advising their visitors to beware of an email claiming to be from Neteller that says:

All the online holiday shopping is fruitful oportunity for online crooks looking to fence a few ill-gotten dollars from unwary customers.

Sophos says a Web poll (already skewed toward Web users) of 280 computer users showed that 71 percent will be shopping online during the holidays. While they're doing that phishers will be right behind them them, waiting to pick up any change they've dropped.

Hackers and security experts made public a vulnerability in Google's search appliances that is putting hundreds of major organizations such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Stanford University and the National Hockey League open to phishing attacks.

According to studies commissioned by the Mozilla Foundation, its own Firefox browser is more efficient in blocking out phishing attacks than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Both Mozilla and Microsoft have released new versions of their browser software - Firefox 2.0 and IE7 correspondingly - and both vendors were eager to emphasise new anti-phishing features that had been included.

Sophos, a world leader in integrated risk management systems, stresses carefulness in recent declarations that banks should end emailing customers to avoid providing more attraction for phishers. The call to action, made by a security expert at Dimension Data, is in reply to a new legitimate Citibank email that consumers incorrectly took for a phishing scam.

The New York State Consumer Protection Board just announced New Yorkers can request that a security freeze be placed on their credit records. A security freeze can aid in the prevention of identity theft by thwarting someone from opening credit cards or lines of credit in another person's name.

"This new law will give New Yorkers a way to help prevent identity theft because it will block access to your credit history," said the board's Chairwoman Teresa Santiago in a news release. "Blocking access to your credit files, in most cases, will prevent someone from using your name and credit information to establish a new line of credit.

Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 46, of Azusa, California, was arrested today by FBI agents after having been a escapee for the past four months, declared J. Stephen Tidwell, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.

Goodin, who was well-known as “The Hacker,” was initially arrested in January 2006 on accuses that he operated an identity theft scheme known as “phishing.” During the scheme, Goodin supposedly sent thousands of fraudulent e-mails which appeared to be from America Online’s Billing Department to AOL subscribers, looking for their personal credit and debit card account information. The stolen data was later used by Goodin to make unauthorized purchases.

An identity-theft scheme that could have an effect on thousands of Americans has been exposed in Denver, the district attorney's offices advised in a customer alert Friday.

"The possible damage to citizens is enormous," said Lynn Kimbrough, spokesman for the prosecutor's office. "The possible is there that could affect thousands by the incredible misuse of tax reports and banking information."

The much anticipated Firefox 2.0 was launched by the Mozilla Foundation yesterday - and immediately generated a storm of protests over privacy issues.

Companies are touting the newest generation of credit cards, where data are transmitted instantly by radio waves.

There's no need to swipe or sign to make a purchase.