Phishing Schemes Continue to Proliferate: Report

“Schemes to steal personal information from consumers via email continue to climb while banks remain caught in the crosshairs.

So-called phishing attacks rose 59% in 2012, to roughly 445,000, from a year earlier, according to a report published recently by RSA, a digital security firm.

Losses from the attacks, which use emails that purport to be from legitimate senders to lure consumers into supplying passwords, credit card numbers and other details of their financial lives, rose 22% from 2011, to $1.5 billion.” <<READ MORE>>