Oxegen

Many acts have been rumored to be playing at the 2006 festival, however none have been confirmed as of yet. March 2005 also saw Microsoft partner with the Australian government to teach law enforcement officials how to combat various cyber crimes, including phishing.^[20]. A limited number of tickets for the 2006 festival went on sale a week after the 2005 festival on Friday, July 15. Microsoft hope to use these lawsuits to uncover some of the largest phishing operators. However, the hot weather on Sunday did result in some severe sun-stroke for some revellers. The lawsuits accuse "John Doe" defendants of using various methods to obtain passwords and confidential information. There was no serious trouble with less than 100 arrests for drug offences, generally for possession of cannabis. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

The tickets finally sold out on 3 June, six weeks prior to the event. On March 31, 2005, Microsoft filed 117 federal lawsuits in the U.S. A limited number of tickets went on sale in December 2004 at a discount price and quickly sold out, the main bulk of tickets went on Sale in February, costing €150 for a Weekend with a camping pass, €125 for a weekend without a camping pass and €67 for a day pass for either day. Microsoft has also joined the effort to crack down on phishing. Green Day, Foo Fighters, New Order, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Frames The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs and Snoop Dog are some of the acts that played on Saturday, July 9 and Sunday, July 10. The federal anti-phishing bill proposes that those criminals who create fake web sites and spam bogus emails in order to defraud consumers could receive a fine up to $250,000 and receive jail terms of up to five years.^[19]. The Darkness, The Cure, Orbital, Scissor Sisters, Faithless, Muse and Cartoon are some of the bands that played at the 2004 festival, which sold out a week before the event. In the United States, Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy introduced the Anti-Phishing Act of 2005 on March 1, 2005.

. UK authorities jailed two men in June 2005 for their role in a phishing scam ^[17], in a case connected to the USSS Operation Firewall, which targeted notorious "carder" websites ^[18]. TITP has a longer history and a smaller site, meaning that it sells out quicker, and many acts play Oxegen on the day that they're not playing TITP. Likewise, authorities later arrested a phishing kingpin, Valdir Paulo de Almeida, for leading one of the largest phishing crime rings, which in 2 years stole between $18 and $37 million USD ^[16]. For the most part, its lineup is identical to that of T in the Park, which runs on the same weekend, but in Scotland. In late March 2005, a 24-year-old Estonian man was arrested for using a backdoor, installed after victims visited his fake website, which included a keylogger that allowed him to monitor users' typing ^[15]. There is also a Funfair featuring A big Wheel and other rides, such as the "Magic Carpet", the Big Drop and the Roller Coaster although at the 2004 festival these cost an extra €5 each. by tracing and arresting phishers.

Critics often note that these toliet facilites are not nearly adequate to satisfy the large crowds. Europe and Brazil have both followed the lead of the U.S. There are also stalls and Shops all around the enclosed area, and toilet areas. The defendant, a Californian teenager, allegedly created and used a webpage designed to look like the America Online website, so that he could steal credit card numbers^[14]. As well as five stages of music, there are two large areas for camping which are numerically subdivided. On January 26, 2004, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) filed the first lawsuit against a suspected phisher. While Oxegen has not yet reached the iconic status of Glastonbury, it still manages to attract a large number of acts each year. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, an industry and law enforcement association, has suggested that conventional phishing techniques could become obsolete in the future as people are increasingly aware of the social engineering techniques used by phishers.^[13] They propose that pharming and other uses of malware will become more common tools for stealing information.

Kildare, Ireland and has an average attendance of around 80,000 a day, with around half of these camping on site for the duration, and the rest travelling to the site each day. Several companies offer banks and other entities likely to suffer from phishing scams 24/7 services of monitoring, analyzing and taking down phishing websites by legal means. It takes place at the Punchestown Racecourse, Co. This (and other forms of two-way authentication and two-factor authentication) are still susceptible to attack, such as that suffered by Scandinavian bank Nordea in late 2005^[12]. It was previously called Witnness, which ran from 2000 and was sponsored by Guinness. Sites have also added verification tools that allow users to see a secret image that the user selected in advance; if the image does not appear, then the site is not legitimate^[11]. Oxegen is a yearly music festival, the first of which occurred in 2004, sponsored by Heineken. Many organizations have introduced a feature called challenge questions, which ask the user for information that should be known only to the user and the bank.

. Spam filters also help protect users from phishers, because they reduce the number of phishing-related emails that users receive. You might have meant oxygen, the colourless gas.. The programs work by identifying phishing contents on websites and emails; anti-phishing software may be integrated with web browsers and email clients as a toolbar that displays the real domain name for the visiting website. Several anti-phishing software programs are available. Many companies, including eBay and PayPal, always address their customers by their username in emails, so if an email addresses a user in a generic fashion ("Dear valued eBay member") it is likely to be an attempt at phishing.

A user who is contacted about an account needing to be "verified" could either contact the company that is the subject of the email, or could type in a trusted web address for the company's website into the address bar of their browser, to bypass the link in the suspected phishing message. In a June 2004 experiment with spear phishing, 80% of 500 West Point cadets who were sent a fake email were tricked into revealing personal information.^[10]. One newer phishing tactic, which uses phishing emails targeted at a specific company, known as spear phishing, has been harnessed to train users at various locations, including West Point Military Academy. One strategy for combating phishing is to train users how to deal with phishing attempts.

There are several different techniques to combat phishing, including legislation and technology created specifically to target phishing. In March 2005, the amount of money lost in the UK was approximately £12 million GBP.^[9]. businesses lose an estimated $2 billion USD a year as their clients become victims.^[8] The United Kingdom also suffers from the immense increase in phishing. U.S.

It is estimated that between May 2004 and May 2005, approximately 1.2 million computer users in the United States suffered losses caused by phishing, totaling approximately $929 million USD. Once this information is acquired, the phishers may use a person's details to create fake accounts in a victim's name, ruin a victim's credit, or even prevent victims from accessing their own accounts. This style of identity theft is becoming more popular, because of the ease with which unsuspecting people often divulge personal information to phishers, including credit card numbers and social security numbers. The damage caused by phishing ranges from loss of access to email to substantial financial loss.

Despite the publicity surrounding the flaw, known as IDN spoofing^[6] or a homograph attack^[7], no known phishing attacks have yet taken advantage of it. A further problem with URLs has been found in the handling of Internationalized domain names (IDN) in web browsers, that might allow visually identical web addresses to lead to different, possibly malicious, websites. In this attack method (known as Cross Site Scripting) users may receive a message saying that they have to "verify" their account, by following a link to what appears to be an authentic website; in reality, the link is crafted to carry out this attack, although it is very difficult to spot without specialist knowledge. These types of attacks are particularly problematic, because they direct the user to sign in at their bank or service's own web pages, where everything from the web address to the security certificates appears correct.

In another popular method of phishing, an attacker uses a bank or service's own scripts against the victim. This is done either by placing a picture of the legitimate entity's URL over the address bar, or by closing the original address bar and opening a new one containing the legitimate URL. Some phishing scams use javascript commands in order to obfuscate the address bar. This method has since been closed off in the Mozilla^[4] and Internet Explorer^[5] web browsers, while Opera provides a warning message and the option not to follow the link.

For example, the link http://www.google.com@members.tripod.com/ may deceive a casual observer into believing that the link will open a page on www.google.com, whereas the link actually directs the browser to a page on members.tripod.com, using a username of www.google.com; were there no such user, the page would open normally. One other method of spoofing links used web addresses containing the @ symbol, which were used to include a username and password in a web URL (contrary to the standard^[3]). Misspelled URLs or the use of subdomains are common tricks used by phishers, such as this example URL, http://www.yourbank.com.example.com/. Most methods of phishing use some form of technical deception designed to make a link in an email appear to belong to the spoofed organization.

In this second example, targeted at SouthTrust Bank users, the phisher has used an image to make it harder for anti-phishing scanners to detect by scanning for text commonly used in phishing emails. In an example PayPal phish (right), spelling mistakes in the email ("no choise but to temporaly suspend your account"), and the presence of an IP address in the link visible in the tooltip under the yellow box ("Click here to verify your account") are both clues that this is a phishing attempt. In general such targeted versions of phishing have been termed spear phishing. While the first such examples were sent indiscriminately in the hope of finding a customer of a given bank or service, recent research has shown that phishers may in principle be able to establish what bank a potential victim has a relationship with, and then send an appropriate spoofed email to this victim^[2].

More recent phishing attempts have started to target the customers of banks and online payment services. The shutting down of the warez scene on AOL caused most phishers to leave the service, and many phishers — often young teens in their heyday — grew out of the habit. Phishers temporarily moved to AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), since they could not be banned from the AIM server. AOL simultaneously developed a system to quickly deactivate any account involved in phishing, often before their phishes (a term for the victims of a "phish") could respond.

Around the same time phishing was so prevalent on AOL that they added a line on all instant messages stating, "no one working at AOL will ask for your password or billing information". In 1997, AOL's policy enforcement with respect to phishing and warez became stricter and forced pirated software off AOL servers. Both phishing and warezing on AOL generally required custom-written programs, such as the colorfully named AOHell. Once the victim had submitted his or her password, the attacker could then access the victim's account and use it for various criminal purposes, such as spamming.

In order to lure the victim into giving up sensitive information the message might include text such as "verify your account" or "confirm billing information". A cracker might pose as an AOL staff member and send an instant message to a potential victim, asking the victim to reveal his or her password^[1]. Phishing on AOL was closely associated with the warez community that exchanged pirated software. AOL eventually brought in measures in late 1995 to prevent this, so early AOL crackers resorted to phishing for legitimate AOL accounts.

Those who would later phish on AOL during the 1990s originally created accounts on AOL with fake, algorithmically generated credit card numbers — these accounts could last weeks or even months until new ones were required. The term phishing was coined by crackers attempting to "fish" for accounts from unsuspecting AOL members; ph is a common hacker replacement for f, and is a nod to an older form of hacking known as "phone phreaking.". The first recorded mention of phishing is on the alt.2600 hacker newsgroup in January 1996, although the term may have appeared even earlier in the printed edition of the hacker newsletter "2600 Magazine". .

Attempts include legislation, user training, and technical measures. With the growing number of reported phishing incidents, additional methods of protection are needed. The term phishing arises from the use of increasingly sophisticated lures to "fish" for users' financial information and passwords. In computing, phishing is a form of social engineering, characterized by attempts to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business in an apparently official electronic communication, such as an email or an instant message.