Is Your Bank Helping Phishers?

Leading financial institutions have adopted a more aggressive attitude toward online identity theft cons known as "phishing scams" in recent months. But companies, including MasterCard International, may be unwittingly helping phishers trick online shoppers, says a new report from a U.K. Web developer.

A test of leading financial services Web sites, including sites run by MasterCard, NatWest, and Reuters Group revealed that many sites have loosely protected features that scam artists can use to mask their own malicious Web sites, hijacking the name and Web address of established institutions, says Sam Greenhalgh, who is 19 and operates the Web site Zapthedingbat.com.

from Yahoo!