phish

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"phish" or "not phish," reducing the possibility of false positives and improving the overall breadth and coverage of the phishing data.

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  • Oppositely, if they are filled in incompletely or by using words resembling anything related to "phish" (or other terms with this bearing in security slang), phishing attacks may evolve into spam. —  Softpedia News - Global
  • HFZ! phish, disguised as security software AntiVirus XP 2008 and XP Security Center, claimed the top two positions in Fortinet's Top 10 with nearly 20 percent of the month's activities. —  Help Net Security - News
  • FTC name impersonated to phish (steal information) from corporate executives PANORAMA with 'Bulfaaleh'-Fatou Jahumpa Ceesay, Abdoulie Bojang, Effrih Mbaye-serious leakages! —  Blogger News Network
  • The workflow of opening an application, being bounced to your browser, having to login to twitter. com, approving the application, and then bouncing back is going to be lost on many novice users, or used as a means to phish them. —  xian's running monolog
  • So what do you say to a customer that has fallen for the phish? —  SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green
 

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