"Researcher: Tools Will Help Personalize ID Theft by 2010"

PhysOrg's article, "Researcher: Tools Will Help Personalize ID Theft by 2010," discusses a framework by Roelof Temmingh that uses transforms to help phishers. The idea behind a transform is that given a piece of data, such as a domain name, the transform can find a corresponding telephone number. This number could then be used in a piece of forged email from a phisher. (See also the eWeek article). Temmingh is the developer of the Wikto and Crowbar security testing applications.