The officials of the "Bank of Travelers Rest", based in Greenville, South Carolina, have alerted people that the bank's name is being misused in a phishing scam, as reported by WYFF4.COM on April 4, 2008.

As indicated by a recent report released by a UK based anti-spam firm, ClearMyMail, mainly tackling unsolicited messages transmitted from America that put back small and medium-sized enterprises in the country by about £4.5 Billion in production costs.

The authorities at the Office of Consumer Affairs are alerting clients against a phishing e-mail fraud planned to resemble an official IRS email, as reported by TheCitizen on April 4, 2008.

The IRS said that "phishing" is a leading tax season fraud since phishers utilize the Internet to purloin money from innocent taxpayers.

Webroot, a company that leads in providing security solutions to enterprises, SMB markets and consumers, on April 1, 2008, released its new report, "State of Internet Security: Protecting Business E-mail."

According to officials of OSU (Oregon State University), a phishing scam known as the "pay or die" is managed to enter the computer servers of the university in the end week of March 2008, potentially affecting faculty and students.

CastleCops, a security watchdog site, is under another DDOS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attack, as per the report published on March 28, 2008 by darkREADING.

Aite Group, LLC identifies, in its new report, strategies that banks could implement to protect themselves from phishing attacks as well as maintain the credibility of their e-mails.

Old Point National Bank issued an alert on March 28, 2008 to tell its customers to look out for fraudulent e-mails that were circulating in the name of the bank.

Old Point National Bank is urging its customers to immediately delete those e-mails and not to contact anyone on the number given in the e-mail, as reported by dailypress on March 29, 2008,

According to Zach Jansen, Information Security Officer, CIT (Calvin Information Technology), phishing e-mails attempted to grab personal information came to the Calvin Webmail ids at least two times every week during February 2008. The e-mails hit about 300-400 accounts every time, as reported by CHIMES on March 28, 2008.

A security violation at a ski resort in Vermont might be responsible for compromising several thousands of active credit cards.

Okemo Mountain Resort announced on March 31, 2008 that attackers hacked into its computer system and possibly viewed data relating to credit cards being used in 28,168 transactions during February 7-22, 2006 and accessed nearly 18,401 credit cards during January-March, same year.