Typical phishing tactics include sending fraudulent e-mails to lure users to look-a-like banking or government Web sites that convince them to give up their bank codes or other sensitive information.

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Women, because of their lesser use of Web banking and sales, suffer from more old-fashioned fraud caused by stolen credit cards or retail employees, he says.

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Paul, Minnesota, man has three online banking accounts, a PayPal account, domain names, Web-hosting accounts, multiple e-mail addresses and many social-networking accounts.

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Russian hackers, meanwhile, took to the Net, launching waves of distributed denial-of-service attacks against the country's government, banking and media Web sites, using thousands of personal computers hijacked with hidden software to overload the servers.

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Banks began offering mobile banking five or six years ago in the form of text messaging and web-based browsers.

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