In March 2005, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005, a bill that proposes a five-year prison sentence and/or fine for individuals who execute phishing attacks and use information garnered through online fraud such as phishing and pharming to commit crimes such as identity theft.
In 2005 while working at Cloudmark, Abad spent six months examining the phishing underworld from the inside.
Fast flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide phishing and malware delivery sites behind an ever-changing network of compromised hosts acting as proxies.
The suite provides protection against Internet threats, including phishing, malware attacks and Domain Name System (DNS) hijackings.
Such means include wiretapping, phishing, keystroke logging, social engineering, dumpster diving, shoulder surfing, side-channel attacks, and software vulnerabilities.