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Is this the ultimate spam fail?
We're not sure whether we ought to laugh at cybercrime.
But sometimes you just have to smile at the antics of would-be cybercriminals.
More iCloud phishing: don't get sucked in
It's easy to justify checking out spams and scams, on the "better safe than sorry" principle.
Don't do it!
You just end up one click closer to catastrophe.
The GHOST in the machine - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's our weekly one-minute security video.
Sending spam, cracking the Blackphone and the GHOST in the machine. Enjoy...
The "Dirty Dozen" SPAMPIONSHIP: Who's the biggest? Who's the worst?
We take our quarterly dive into the SophosLabs spamtrap logs to find out who sends the most spam.
Six countries made it onto our "worst per person" chart for the first time in a year...find out if you were one of them.
Do terrorists use spam to shroud their secrets?
An article by an NSA mathematician about randomness also raises the question, "Are terrorists hiding behind spam?"
Anatomy of a privacy leak - Apple OS X search engine in the Spotlight
You'd expect Apple's OS X search engine, Spotlight, to end up with a lot of information in its indexes.
But you wouldn't expect it to help spammers and scammers keep track of you...
12 Days competition: Day 8 - The amount of spam you can send is...
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 8 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
5 online scams to watch out for this Black Friday and Cyber Monday
The traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season is also an opportune time for cybercriminals, scam artists and conmen to gear up their activities.
Here are the top 5 online scams to watch out for...
SSCC 174 - Who says law enforcement isn't tackling cybercrime? [PODCAST]
Here's the latest epsiode of our weekly Chet Chat podcast, for your listening pleasure.
From a carder ring that got busted to a spamming system that ran amuck, let yourself be amused and educated at the same time...
Comedy spam blunder raises a smile to start the week
We all get lots of spam. Enough, even with junk folders and spam filters, to be more than merely annoying.
So here's a spamming mistake to make you smile...
SSCC 172 - Ransomware's not dead! [PODCAST]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly security podcast.
News you can use!
"Dear ATM, kindly dispense 30 banknotes as a test" - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's this week's 60 Second Security video, for your viewing pleasure.
From scammers to spammers in just one minute...
The "Dirty Dozen" SPAMPIONSHIP - who's got the biggest zombie problem?
Our latest quarterly SPAMPIONSHIP charts are out, showing which countries have the most zombies, and therefore send the most spam.
Take a look, and then ask yourself, "What can I do to help?"
Simple: Kill a Zombie today!
5 steps to lock down your webmail account
For most people Gmail, Outlook.com or Yahoo! Mail is their main personal account. Here are some of the most important steps to keep unwanted people out of your web-based email account.
Facebook warns against buying fake likes, but the fans-for-sale industry is booming
Facebook is taking another swipe at fraudulent likes that artificially inflate a Facebook Page's number of fans.
Snapchat says fat spam is not its fault
Have your Snapchat friends taken to calling you fat recently? If so, don't get mad at them - their suggestion that you pop a weight loss pill is probably the result of having their account hacked.
5 things you should know about email unsubscribe links before you click
We all get emails we don’t want and cleaning them up can be as easy as clicking 'unsubscribe' at the bottom of the email. However, some of those handy little links can cause more trouble than they solve.
OMG, you would not BELIEVE what Facebook thinks about click-baiting
Facebook is cracking down on those click-baiting headlines - you know, the ones that say “YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT THIS GIRL DID NEXT”, or “Watch what happens when this guy puts a BATTERY in a MICROWAVE”.
Good bot, bad bot? 23 million Twitter accounts are automated
Its latest SEC filing says that 8.5% of active monthly users are automatons, which could mean there are a boatload of bots on the service. Some are spam, some are useful, some are just publications' own, automated Twitter feeds.
Gmail introduces filters for non-Latin characters, weeding out more phishing emails
Using non-Latin characters that look very similar to their ASCII counterparts helps scammers, spammers and phishing crooks send emails from legitimate-looking addresses. Now Google's putting a stop to that with a set of new spam filters.
