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Scams
Breaking Dawn, Taylor Swift, Image Search: Poisoning, survey scams on the rise
Stephen Cobb • 23 Nov 2011
Facebook video scam: 15 seconds? Don't watch it at all
David Harley • 13 Nov 2011
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 Harley • 04 Nov 2011
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 Harley • 11 Oct 2011
Cybercrime
Online Poker, Real Fraud
Aryeh Goretsky • 21 Sep 2011
The Online Apartment Rental Scam, Fully Furnished With Multiplier Effect
Stephen Cobb • 16 Sep 2011
Malware De-Cloaked
... people have been asking me about Google's interesting paper on Trends in Circumventing Web-Malware Detection...
David Harley • 19 Aug 2011
Win32/Delf.QCZ:Trust Me, I’m Your Anti-Virus
Robert Lipovsky • 03 Aug 2011
Free WiFi: Price? All your personal information
Cameron Camp • 14 Jul 2011