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  • Social networking strikes again

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    A lot of write-ups have been covering this, so here are a few from InformationWeek, Dancho, SCMagazine and McAfee. Besides saying the ever satisfying “told you so”, nothing much to add here. More bogus profiles enticing users to connect to them, look at the content, and catch the same old nastiness – only packaged in…

  • Who owns your online identity? Facebook squatters on the rise

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    I have just read a couple of excellent posts (on SquaredPeg, and InsideFacebook) that talk about something I have been preaching for a while – your online identity and how easily it can be manipulated (or falsely created). The posts talk about Facebook groups and accounts that have been created for the class of 2013…

  • Christmas shopping online – make sure you get what you PAY for

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    In the line of our ongoing “education”, we all know by now that eCrime is no longer lurking right there waiting for victims to come knocking, but is rather working vigilantly to ensure that whatever picks up the most interest online at any given moment is being used to boost the profitability of eCrime. Having…

  • AIRC Threat report and the link to McColo

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    As promised, the AIRC Threat Report for November is out. And as also promised, the link to McColo is revealed here – during the time when we were looking at the criminal server, we have had the opportunity to observe that someone is logged onto the server at the same time, and the connection came…

  • Hosting provider crackdown?

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    Recently, there has been a lot of focus from the security research community on a hosting provider named McColo corporation (out of San Jose, CA). Reports on spam, phishing and connections to Malweb distribution amongst other have been accumulating (including our own malicious server analysis which has been spotted to be administered from a McColo…