Sitting in an airport you rarely frequent, you grab your laptop and snap out a couple e-mails to send, and look, there’s...
...It's a 419 (Advance Fee Fraud) message, of course. Stripped of the pseudo-governmental flim-flam, the core of the message is that they...
The US Department of Justice's announcement yesterday of the takedown of the command and control (C&C) servers for the Coreflood bots (detected...
Here’s a little information from ESET’s point of view about the Coreflood botnet, whose C&C (Command and Control) servers were taken down...
I've added some commentary and resources on the Japan earthquake/tsunami disasters to an independent blog I maintain that specializes in hoaxes, scams and...
My colleague Urban Schrott, from ESET Ireland, wrote a nice feature article for our monthly ThreatSense report (which should be available shortly...
What a touching email. Mercy saw my profile and wants to know more about me. She even tells me “please don't forget...
...a piece at Discovery News about 5 Unexpected Threats of Online Social Networking...
[UPDATE #1 at 12:15PM: Added more information about location of earthquake and prior scams. AG] We have just heard about the early September...
You have to be a real cool cat to get into the Cambridge Who’s Who registry. A few months ago I received...
I received an email today that was funny to me, but not to someone who is unsuspecting. I’ll let you read it....
I recently read a column on Chris Elliott’s travel site warning of a truly dishonest and despicable practice that Yahoo Travel and...
A couple of months ago I posted a blog while flying at about 30,000 feet. That was a first for me and...
I was greeted with the most charming email this morning. A young lady is so impressed with me that she wants to...
I received the following email recently: Greetings, Please forgive me for the unofficial way of reaching you via email Contacting you is...
David Harley sent me a link to an article about a scam I wasn’t familiar with. I wouldn’t really call it a...
I recently received a summons for Jury duty. The date I was supposed to appear on coincides with a date I am...
SANS posted a story at the Internet Storm Center a couple of days ago that they were seeing fake email from the...
Engineers are really smart people who often know how to make something with no real world effectiveness work really well without effect....
Back on the 22nd of February, I wrote an entry on this blog called "Does Anybody Know WHOIS Out There?". This entry...
The Apple iPad is the current gadget du jour amongst the digerati and has been seeing strong presales, with estimates as high...