How cybercriminals play the domain game Sponsored And why AI tools will make you less vulnerable 21 Oct 2020 |
The rise of fearware and how to fight back Sponsored A new kind of email filtering protects against fraud 14 Oct 2020 |
Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times Not exactly the first time this has happened, by a very long chalk 7 Aug 2020 | 12
Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5 A very busy six months for Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit 8 Jul 2020 | 21
Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers Exclusive DNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief 7 Jul 2020 | 20
'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam Special report Is that listed phone number going direct to a professional or a call center? 2 Jul 2020 | 20
Zoom bomb: Vid conf biz to snap up Keybase as not-a-PR-move move gets out of hand Things will change forever, nods ex-Facebooker Alex Stamos 7 May 2020 | 11
Fake crypto-wallet extensions appear in Chrome Web Store once again, siphoning off victims' passwords 'Seriously sometimes seems Google's moderators are only optimized to respond to social media outrage' 6 May 2020 | 22
Uncle Sam turns the screws on VoIP providers allegedly used by coronavirus, tax, bogus tech support scammers This being America, they weren't too hard on most of them 31 Mar 2020 | 4
Afrinic's new CEO promises change of culture at org laid low by allegations of corruption and dysfunction Interview Eddy Kayihura hopes to fix troubled regional internet registry 24 Feb 2020 | 1
Can AI-enhanced virtual sports presenters do the job? It's a big ask Something for the Weekend, Sir? The ball's in your park and I'm just happy for the team 14 Feb 2020 | 93
Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks' personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why? Exclusive If CheckPeople could take a look at this, that would be great 9 Jan 2020 | 169
Cogent cut off from ARIN Whois after scraping net engineers' contact details and sliding them to sales staff And the techies are almost universally very happy about it 9 Jan 2020 | 12
Bet you can't guess what I'm wearing, or where I'm wearing it Something for the Weekend, Sir? Look in my eye and say that 1 Nov 2019 | 71
Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese How to make friends and influence people, 2019 Edition 31 Oct 2019 | 106
Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more Feature Creators tried to stop us looking through it. We saw a copy anyway. Now it's being scrubbed clean 23 Oct 2019 | 77
TalkTalk says WalkWalk if you've got a mouldy Tiscali email address, or pay £50 a year to keep it UK ISP gives legacy ex-customers an ultimatum 4 Oct 2019 | 44
Boffins build AI that can detect cyber-abuse – and if you don't believe us, YOU CAN *%**#* *&**%* #** OFF Alternatively, you can try to overpower it with your incredibly amazing sarcasm 17 Sep 2019 | 49
Wondering where that upcoming meeting with 'Cheap Viagra' came from? Spammers beat Gmail filters by abusing Google Calendar, Forms, Photos, Analytics... Kaspersky fingers pro-G filters for letting cyber-muck through 11 Jun 2019 | 29
Be wary of emails with links to ... er, Google Drive? Is that right? Alibaba, Azure and more used for badness, warns infosec biz 7 May 2019 | 28