Desperate to purloin money out of stupid and desparate people, 419 scammers are now trying Google Calendar invites. The pain of it is that if you’re using Outlook, the calendar invite is automatically accepted and you get a reminder popping up. This has to be the rudest, nastiest spam I’ve seen in a long time. […]
Recent reports of “imported hardware entering the US with hidden malware” are grossly exaggerated. Occasionally, a virus creeps into some piece of hardware or software, but that’s because of shoddy manufacturing or just honest mistakes (it’s for this reason that every piece of software that Microsoft releases goes through a multi-engine virus check). Sometimes, there’s […]
As we have discussed on this blog more than once, convictions for cybercrime activities are a rare thing indeed. Recently, however, a former University of Salford (United Kingdom) student was convicted and given a suspended sentence for stealing online gaming credentials. The University of Salford contacted the police after it received a complaint from a […]
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