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Cybercrime, Cyberpolicing, and the Public
Security can't be purely the responsibility of the government, the police, the security industry, the ISPs, the public sector, private industry, or any permutation thereof.
David Harley • 14 Feb 2012
Facebook scam: the hours I spend...
Facecrooks has flagged a scam that has apparently already tricked 300,000 people into Liking a scam page.
David Harley • 24 Jan 2012
Anonymous and the Megaupload Aftermath: Hacktivism or Just Plain Ugly?
ESET Research • 20 Jan 2012
HTML/Scrinject: surfing for cheap thrills at XXXmas?
Do Xmas shopping and porn surfing account for a spike in Win32/Scrinject detections?
David Harley • 12 Jan 2012
Irish 419-er seeks Spanish Lady
ESET Ireland's Urban Schrott has found an Ireland-targeted 419 with a Spanish twist.
David Harley • 09 Jan 2012
Facebook Worm: ZeuS is not your (FB) Friend
CSIS have reported a worm that really does spread through Facebook...but it's unsafe to use VirusTotal to compare product detection.
David Harley • 01 Dec 2011
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