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Facebook WON’T donate 45 cents per share for beaten boy’s surgery. It’s a hoax!

Nov

2011

Almost 200,000 Facebook users have been duped into sharing and reposting a message about a 14 year old boy who was allegedly beaten badly by his stepfather after protecting his little sister from being raped. The message, which comes attached to an image of a young boy’s injured torso, claims that Facebook will donate 45 […]

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Gaddafi’s death in spam

Nov

2011

“Nigerian” spammers are extremely quick to react to the world’s hottest news stories. News of the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had barely even broken before a string of emails from the “relatives of the deceased” began to appear. Gaddafi’s inconsolable relatives would be amazed if they knew how many emails had been […]

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NZ recording industry fires first “guilty until proved innocent” shots at alleged pirates

Nov

2011

I’m currently in New Zealand for a variety of reasons, including attending Kiwicon, one of the best security conferences (OK, the best) in Australasia. New Zealand has had a fair bit of coverage in internet-related news stories over the last past months, because the country’s parliament passed a controversial law earlier this year: the Copyright […]

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