Microsoft has confirmed that the publication of thousands of Hotmail passwords was the result of a phishing attack against users of the popular email service.

微软承认针对使用其流行的电子邮件服务用户的钓鱼攻击，已经导致泄露了数以千计的Hotmail用户的密码。

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This week Google revealed that a cyber attack originating from China had used a technique known as "spear phishing" to extract Gmail passwords from unwary users.

本周谷歌披露说，一次来源于中国的网络攻击，通过使用一项“鱼叉式网络钓鱼”技术提取那些粗心大意的谷歌邮箱用户的账号密码。

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The exact same attack methodologies are used to make a website host malware or a phishing site.

而制作恶意软件网站和钓鱼网站也采用了一模一样的方法。

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There was a phishing attack the other day when a large company acquired a small company.

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It was a phishing attack, and people started submitting information about their families, their kids, their Social Security numbers.

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It is not clear whether the new lists was part of the same phishing attack that collected the Hotmail addresses or a separate scam.

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