We have been analyzing and monitoring the so-called Police Trojan since it appeared a few months ago. This malware infects the victim’s machine by means of a web page and hijacks the machine so as to make it unusable until the owner pays a 100-euro fine. Yes, a fine: it threatens users by posing as […]
Shady ticket deals for the 2012 London Olympics? Hardly surprising. But when the source is Google’s famous AdWords advertising service–one of the internet giant’s main sources of income–then a double take might be in order.A BBC investigation found that a Google search for “olympic tickets” resulted in top-of-the-page placement of sponsored sites for vendors selling […]
It’s a story which has the potential to make the scandal over the hacking of celebrities’ mobile phone voicemails seem like small potatoes. BBC Radio 4 has broadcast a documentary claiming that computer hackers were used by the British press to spy on politicians and the military. According to the programme, the illicit mining of […]
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