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Oops! Rick Perry searches are popular, plentiful and .potentially harmful?

15
Nov
2011

During the Republican Presidential Debate on November 9. 2011, Rick Perry’s speech garnered plenty of attention — but probably not the kind he sought.Social Media has popularized this YouTube video, with the number of views skyrocketing to 1.7 million in just two days, thereby making it a new member of the Viral Video category as […]

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Diplomat held at JFK airport with a lot of cash – a convoluted Nigerian email scam

27
Oct
2011

Email scams often take various forms – but typically they will claim that you have the chance to pick up millions of dollars (perhaps from Mrs Gaddafi, or a non-existent lottery, or a serviceman who has stumbled across a fortune while despots flee the country). Victims are tricked into handing over money in advance (this […]

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Gaddafi search poisoning

21
Oct
2011

Here's an example of search poisoning  somewhat similar to that predicted by Stephen Cobb using the death of Gaddafi as a hook, noted by our colleague Raphael Labaca Castro, of ESET Latin America. The original blog is in Spanish. Raphael reports an email that comes with the following title (in Portuguese, suggesting that Brazilian Internet users […]

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