Appendix A FSTC Phishing Solutions Categories

This document is a companion to the “FSTC Counter Phishing Solutions Survey Summary” (published by FSTC on Dec. 20, 2004) and is used with the FSTC’s permission. The survey was conducted in connection with the FSTC’s Counter Phishing project. It is provided to give additional background information detailing the categories used by that project and generalized in Chapter 12 to make them equally applicable to the botnet solution space.

B.1 Security Hardening and Technological Refinements

B.1.1 Category I: Hardening Office and Home PCs

The home or office PC is increasingly the “weakest link” in eCommerce security, including online financial services. At the same time, the number of users accessing ...

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