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Email For A Survey

AlienCamel, the email service that does a pretty good job of keeping out spam and viruses I’ve mentioned in the past, is offering a year’s Clean Email in return for feedback: We are looking for 50...

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Ebay to buy Skype: It’s Official

eBay Inc. has agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies SA, the global Internet communications company, for approximately $2.6 billion in up-front cash and eBay stock, plus potential...

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Skype, PayPal and eBay

There’s quite a bit that’s interesting in all this Skype/eBay business. I know others have raked over all this before, but now it’s official I’ll weigh in too. The release is quite informative. It says...

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Credit Where Skype Credit’s Due

I feel I need to add a footnote to my outburst about the difficulties of buying Skype credits in far-flung countries which may not have great reputations for handling fraud but which do maintain...

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Reforestation, Google Earth Style

Here’s a very cool way to mix technology and environmental stuff, via the Google Earth Blog. (Interest declared: It’s part of the NEWtrees project, the brainchild of my publisher and friend Mark...

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Driver Phishing

Maybe because it’s early in the morning, but I fell for this little scam pretty easily. I’m going to call it “driver phishing” because it has all the hallmarks of a phishing attack, although it’s...

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Turning Off the Comment Demon

By Jeremy  Wagstaff (this is my weekly syndicated newspaper column, distributed via the Loose Wire Service.) Someone defaced my Wikipedia page the other day. Yes, it’s absurd that I have a Wikipedia...

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Media’s Future: Retail

(This is a copy of my weekly newspaper column, distributed by Loose Wire Service) By Jeremy Wagstaff As you no doubt know, Rupert Murdoch has decided to put up a front door on the The Times’ website,...

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Afghanistan’s TV Phone Users Offer a Lesson

By Jeremy Wagstaff There’s something I notice amid all the dust, drudgery and danger of Kabul life: the cellphone TVs. No guard booth—and there are lots of them—is complete without a little cellphone...

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Cancelling: From Ease to Sleaze

Cleaning house of the many services which drain my bank account monthly without me noticing, I observed what I have decided to call the Cancellation Ease and Sleaze Scale in action. At one end there’s...

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Visual Spoofing And The Art of The Sting

Here’s a potential scam that raises the bar — and alarum bells — for everyone. It’s already got a name: Visual Spoofing. It works like this (I think): Instead of ne’er-do-wells concealing addresses to...

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This week’s column – Phishing trojans

This week’s Loose Wire column is about phishing trojans:  A FEW WEEKS AGO I talked about the dangers of “phishing” e-mails (Look Out! It’s a Scam, Feb. 5) that fool you into thinking that they are from...

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Double Checking A Phishing Scam

Sometimes the usual checks to see whether an email is a phishing scam or not don’t work. Here’s an example. This morning I received a quite credible looking PayPal email. Of course it had all the...

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How To Make A Phish Look Real

Here’s an interesting — and troubling — variation on the phishing scam: Using country-specific domain name to make a phishing link look real. The problem for phishers has always been to conceal the...

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Phishing Gets Proactive

Scaring the bejesus out of a lot of security folk this weekend is a new kind of phishing attack that doesn’t require the victim to do anything but visit the usual websites he might visit anyway. It...

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Closing The Door After The Phish Has Bolted

MasterCard, one of several banks discovered to have flaws on their websites that would have allowed a phisher to capture passwords, says it has fixed the problem. American Banker Online reported...

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A New Phish?

Not sure if this is new but I’ve not seen it before: A clever new piece of social engineering in a phishing email. You have added phoneseller@yahoo.com as a new email address for your PayPal account....

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Phishing Your Yahoo! Account

More evidence that phishers are widening their net. Munir Kotadia of ZDNet Australia reports that Yahoo’s free instant-messaging (IM) service is being targeted by phishers in an attempt to steal...

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