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Facebook typo squatting

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
Facebook typo squatting

“Facebooik.com” – not goodA domain registered in a tiny town in Georgia is presenting fumble-fingered Facebook fans with few fun-filled hours of diversion:It’s one of those interminable contest sites we’ve all come to know... »

Community-Based Defense: Looking Outward, Moving Forward

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By MSRCTEAM
Community-Based Defense: Looking Outward, Moving Forward

Two years ago, in front of a standing-room only crowd here at Black Hat, we introduced three new information sharing programs as well as the concept of Community-Based Defense. The underlying concept shared by all three programs was simple-collaboration will be key to preventing and defending against online crime going forward; no one company,... »

Mariposa bot creator arrested in Slovenia

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
Mariposa bot creator arrested in Slovenia

The Register is reporting that police in Slovenia have arrested a 23-year-old man, who went by the handle Iserdo, and charged him with writing and selling the code that has been used to create the Mariposa botnet.Iserdo and two other suspects were take... »

Don’t pay to read public domain content on your iPad

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
By paperghost
Don’t pay to read public domain content on your iPad

There are large amounts of videos on Youtube right now advertising a site called Bestpadmedia(dot)com. Although some are being whacked by Youtube due to “terms of use violation” there’s still a lot of them online. The videos claim the site a... »

Work-at-home spam with some twists

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
Work-at-home spam with some twists

The spam bucket is a great place to go looking for net ugliness. And when you’re in this business, that’s business as usual. Here’s a new one:Today we checked out a spam email contained random letters and characters and a link in the middle of th... »

Privacy bills in U.S. Congress in brief

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
By Tom Kelchner
Privacy bills in U.S. Congress in brief

Congressional staffers have posted a very well-written summary of the two Internet privacy bills working their way through the U.S. Congress. It provides a nice birds-eye-view of what the two bills are trying to accomplish without the usual reams of su... »

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