Iconix as defense to Phishing
January 26, 2008 – 1:28 amPaypal, an division of Ebay, announce Monday that it is going to use iconix as solutions to phishing problems. This technology has been fully tested last year and on Monday, it will be officially promoted to Paypal’s 164 million accounts. Over the past few years, phishing has been a problem to paypal and other online banking users. A email that looks like was sent by Paypal states that you need to login to validate your account. As a result, the information you entered will be get stolen and you may end up lose all the money in your paypal account.
Iconix says its technology works with most Webmail programs, including Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and Earthlink, as well as some of the more popular office suites. To date, however, the technology only works with Microsoft Outlook 2003 (in beta form) and Outlook Express.