Comodo offers free services to stem significant increase in fraud attacks against charities.

Comodo offers free services to stem significant increase in fraud attacks against charities.

Comodo Inc., a global leader in Identity and Trust Assurance, today announced an initiative aimed at helping charitable organizations protect their donors from website data theft and online fraud.

This initiative was the result of Comodo’s extensive research into identifying Internet Fraud segment clusters. Based on our technologies as a Certification Authority, Comodo was able to ascertain that Not for Profit organizations were the new targets of phishers and pharmers, “We’ve noticed a huge increase in attacks on charities by an ever more indiscriminate cyber-criminal fraternity. As a Certification Authority, we have a duty to help these worthy organizations get the donations they urgently need,” said Judy Shapiro, VP of Marketing at Comodo. “Our free Identity and Trust Assurance solutions will quickly provide complete transactional, infrastructural and anti-phishing protection for non-profit websites.” Comodo expects that over 3,000 Not for Profit organizations will benefit from this initiative.

Recent security breaches such as the theft of 2,000 donor addresses from a UK Christian Charity website add weight to existing research suggesting cyber criminals are focusing on non-profit sites as an easy target. However, unlike private corporations, many charities do not have the time, resources or expertise necessary to protect themselves from the latest attacks. The problem is exacerbated by the wider misconceptions that an SSL certificate alone is sufficient protection against online fraud.

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