Network-Based Solution for Phishing Attacks? 16
An anonymous reader is curious about this: "A company called TippingPoint (3com) sells an Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that promise 'to block phishing attempts and guard against identity theft'. What I found interesting is the wide spectrum of actions they take to acheive a single goal: 'The IPS uses a variety of mechanisms to detect and prevent phishing scams including vulnerability protection, pattern-matching protection, and behavior-based protection.' What do you think about the effectivness of IPS?"
Nice marketing copy (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Nice marketing copy (Score:1, Insightful)
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Since We started using IPS... (Score:5, Funny)
Yep, this IPS is amazing. It is only rivaled by the greatness of the Virus Scanner that runs on my PocketPC, which detects every known PktPC virus ever created. I'm still trying to figure out how they do that with a signiture database that is 0 bytes in length, but...
Re:Since We started using IPS... (Score:2)
Not Good Enough...Yet (Score:5, Interesting)
Intrusion Protection (Score:1)
Dunno about you, but Intrusion Protection conjures up images of firewalls, virus scanning and script blocking software to me...
What do you think about the effectivness of IPS? (Score:4, Insightful)
Impossible (Score:2)
It can't possibly work.
Nearly every company I deal with for paying bills, purchasing, etc... all use an outside company for bill-processing.
I get emails all of the time from my utilities providers (water, electricity, phone, cable+internet, etc.) for various reasons that happen to have links to outside companies.
Even ebay/paypal do this, although verification with them is easier - a simple "whois ebay-whateverthisnewhostnameiveneverheardof.com" returns the same owners as "whois ebay.com".
Unfortunately, I ha
Not so new... (Score:2)