Scams


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Breaking Dawn, Taylor Swift, Image Search: Poisoning, survey scams on the rise

Breaking Dawn, Taylor Swift, Image Search: Poisoning, survey scams on the rise

Breaking Dawn, Taylor Swift, Image Search: Poisoning, survey scams on the rise

Stephen Cobb23 Nov 2011


Facebook video scam: 15 seconds? Don't watch it at all

Facebook video scam: 15 seconds? Don't watch it at all

Facebook video scam: 15 seconds? Don't watch it at all

David Harley13 Nov 2011


Stolen password checking: a question of trust

Stolen password checking: a question of trust

Stolen password checking: a question of trust

How do you know a service is legitimate and safe? We all have to trust by proxy sometimes, but it just doesn't feel right to encourage people to accept reassuring statements as gospel.

David Harley04 Nov 2011


Google Eye Phish: Bait Me A Hook In The Morning

Google Eye Phish: Bait Me A Hook In The Morning

Google Eye Phish: Bait Me A Hook In The Morning

...I've been seeing quite a few scrawny, toothless piranha mailed from email addresses that are often spoofed but invariably dubious like google.phishing.team@a_latvian_mail_provider.com...

David Harley11 Oct 2011


Online Poker, Real Fraud

Online Poker, Real Fraud

Online Poker, Real Fraud

Aryeh Goretsky21 Sep 2011


The Online Apartment Rental Scam, Fully Furnished With Multiplier Effect

The Online Apartment Rental Scam, Fully Furnished With Multiplier Effect

The Online Apartment Rental Scam, Fully Furnished With Multiplier Effect

Stephen Cobb16 Sep 2011


Malware De-Cloaked

Malware De-Cloaked

Malware De-Cloaked

... people have been asking me about Google's interesting paper on Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection...

David Harley19 Aug 2011


Win32/Delf.QCZ:Trust Me, I’m Your Anti-Virus

Win32/Delf.QCZ:Trust Me, I’m Your Anti-Virus

Win32/Delf.QCZ:Trust Me, I’m Your Anti-Virus

Robert Lipovsky03 Aug 2011


Free WiFi: Price? All your personal information

Free WiFi: Price? All your personal information

Free WiFi: Price? All your personal information

Cameron Camp14 Jul 2011