Bulldog Digital Security is an Information Security Auditing and Consulting firm based in Toronto, Canada. Standards-based Network and Information Security Audits encompass components such as network vulnerability assessment, ethical hacking, security policy review, ecommerce security consulting, application testing, wireless network security testing, and follow-up re-testing, consulting and security certification.

The term "Phishing" refers email fraud that directs unsuspecting users to web sites in order to collect sensitive information like bank accounts, credit cards, passwords, identification numbers, addresses, etc. In summer 2003, the FBI described it as the "hottest, and most troubling, new scam on the Internet." The smartest prevention lies in education - here are some tips for your end users, courtesy of CNN and WordSpy.

Simple Spam Prevention: have a look at the source code on our "contacts" page - you won't see the "@" symbol anywhere. Why? Because spammers use "bot" programs to harvest email addresses from the the Internet and they're looking for the "@" symbol. Here's a nice clean solution: obfuscate email addresses using "hex" code in the html instead of plain text. A hex converting tool can be found here.