In the last six months of 2004, Symantec Corp. detected 10,310 new phishing attacks, with an average of nearly 400 new attacks per week where victims are encouraged to divulge personal information or unknowingly place malicious code on their computers. During this period the number of phishing attempts being blocked by Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam antifraud filters rose from nine million phishing attempts per week in early July to 33 million messages per week by the end of December.
Users of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. firewalls need to upgrade them right away in order to shut down a vulnerability that can lead to the firewalls being taken over by attackers.
Plumtree Software plans to take the wraps off a new version of its portal platform featuring expanded Web services capabilities and a unified code base for Windows and Java.