Comments on: Phishers take advantage of Wells Fargo's woes

Phishing sites are looking to take advantage of last weekend's outage of services at Wells Fargo.

Wrong headline
by qwerty75 August 22, 2007 3:03 PM PDT: Should say:

"Phishers take advantage of the publics continuing fascination with technical ignorance."

If the population at large would take an hour or two out of their lives to learn a little, they would fall "victim" to this.; Like this Reply to this comment

Wells Fargo Still Showing Glitches
by nickerbocker79 August 22, 2007 3:43 PM PDT: I made a deposit on Monday unaware of what happened over the weekend. The deposit I made was credited to my account twice. I wonder how long before they catch that.; Like this Reply to this comment

typo
by hrosenman August 22, 2007 3:49 PM PDT: "... (usually the address bar will be a different color and display a tiny paddle lock)"

That should be "padlock"; Like this Reply to this comment

As ye sow ...
by NoVista August 22, 2007 4:50 PM PDT: I wouldn't like to see any individual hurt by such activities. But! no sympathy for the scum company and their slimy foreclosure and other tactics.

http://www.innercitypress.org/wells.html; Like this Reply to this comment

IT's WAR. Cyber War. And the Internet is the Battleground.
by disco-legend-zeke August 23, 2007 9:56 AM PDT: The massive DOS outages, spamming, and other attacks on the Internet are not just skript kiddies playing around. Those that are not terrorists are criminal organizations.

One IP address in France made 3 or four ADMIN login attempts per second for several hours last week.

Its time for the good guys to start taking action, or we will go back to standing at long lines and bank-by-mail systems.; Like this Reply to this comment