Presidential candidates face phishing threat in '08

Phishing is a huge threat, and has been in the past as well. Security professionals are worried that Presidential candidates in the 2008 may have problems with these attacks, and they could potentially disrupt their campaigns. Canidates websites are a very big target for these crimes to be deployed against. They can also make websites that seem to be legit campaign websites, and ask for contributions, getting donations to the campaign and credit card numbers of those who contribute. They also fear that they could use these methods to pose as one candidates website get donations that are suppossed to be for that canidate and give it to the opposing canidate they are in favor of. They can do this by making a site that it one letter off, from the real site domain name such as hilaryclin.com apposed to hilaryclint.com, and use typos to reek their havoc. Or they can use domains that appear to be an extent from the orginal such as hilaryclin.donate.com. These seem to be an extention of the real site, but are in fact a phishers' websites. The 2008 candidates were warned about the risk that they may be targets but few have acted on these warnings. They need to know how much this can have an impact on their campaign and how they can fix it.