Here are some further thoughts arising from the ACPO National Cyber Crime Conference held recently in the UK*. DAC Janet Williams, ACPO’s e-Crime lead, summarized the current initiatives along these lines (apologies if I’ve introduced too many of my own preconceptions): The UK intends to tackle cybercrime and make this one of the safest places … More Cybercrime, Cyberpolicing, and the Public
Thinking of going online to get a Victoria’s Secret giftcard for your Valentine? Be careful where you look! Some Google search results are rigged, especially image results. And some innocent-looking links are part of fraudulent activities such as cookie-stuffing and click-jacking. Below is a short video that shows what happens when you click on one … More Cybercriminals rip off Victoria’s Secret Valentine’s giftcard seekers
Scam artists and cybercriminals are looking to turn romance into profit now that Valentine’s Day approaches, possibly taking over your computer in the process. According to ESET researchers in Latin America, we can expect the quest for love to be leveraged as an effective social engineering ploy to enable the bad guys to infect unsuspecting … More Valentine’s Day Scams: For the love of money
February 7th is international Safer Internet Day and it focuses mainly on safe internet use among children and young people. Just very recently ESET Ireland has ordered a survey to show if children are supervised online. The results are shocking as they reveal that up to 73% of children are left entirely unsupervised online. We … More Focus on Child Safety on Safer Internet Day
Aleksandr Matrosov, in Moscow, writes: This month we discovered some new facts relating to Win32/Carberp trojan activity. We have spent a lot of time writing about Carberp already, but interesting information is still coming to light. The first interesting information to attract our attention recently concerned stealing money from Facebook users. Before then we hadn’t … More Facebook Fakebook: New Trends in Carberp Trojan Activity
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