KISSmetrics Marketing Blog: An Open Letter to Marketers Who Abuse Social Media for Selfish Gain
“We’re not going to give you another self-righteous argument about how you can’t make money with social media. We’re not going to sermonize about the pitfalls of sleazy marketing. We’re not going to tell you you’re ruining opportunities for all of the other marketers out there who are trying to do things the right way.
You’ve probably heard enough of that, and it doesn’t matter anyway.
No, the honest truth is that it’s just a bad business strategy, and eventually you’re going to get burned.”
Krebs on Security: White House Calls Meeting on Rogue Online Pharmacies
“The Obama administration is inviting leaders of the top Internet domain name registrars and registries to attend a three-hour meeting at the White House next month about voluntary ways to crack down on Web sites that are selling counterfeit prescription medications.”
Security Labs: 419 scams go phishing
‘The scam we describe in this blog is quite interesting because it is combines a typical 419 scam with a phishing attack. After the initial communication with the scammer, the victim receives a phishing email claiming to be from PayPal indicating that the scammer “PayPaled” the money to the victim. Here is the long story.’
Terry Zink: Russian cybercrime is organized / Russian cybercrime is not organized
“…the more I read, the more I see conflicting views on the state of the criminal cybercrime world. On the one hand, the Russian criminal cybercrime underworld is a scary, organized place where people are actively trying to do the rest of us harm. On the other hand, there is the position that that position is an exaggeration of what it is actually like and that it’s a bunch of ragtag folks who have some advanced computer skills but they are not formally organized.”
Terry Zink: A bit more on Rustock
“Rustock is, of course, the largest botnet out there but it depends on how you count it, as I have iterated in the past. If you count by number of unique IPs, then it is the largest botnet by a large margin. If you count by the number of email envelopes, it is still the largest by a large margin. However, each email envelope can have multiple recipients (receivers on the RCPT TO). If you count the each recipient as 1 message, then Rustock is the second largest botnet, trailing Lethic by a large margin.”
Spam Wars: Repeat After Me: "The From Field is Forged"
“Spammers and crooks know it: Lots of email recipients treat the From: field as if it must be telling the truth. If an email message that makes it to your inbox says it’s from Joe Blow, well, by God, it’s from Joe Blow.
This blind faith about unsolicited email messages is what gets so many computer users into trouble.”
threatpost: Anti-Phishing Group Targeting Fax-Based Scams
“The heyday of faxing may have passed twenty years ago, but scam artists haven’t given up on the old technology, especially when it comes to wheedling personally identifiable information out of unsuspecting office workers. Now a leading anti-phishing group is tackling the problem of fax based phishing scams.”
threatpost: DLL Hijacking: Facts and Fiction
“The reality is anyone who can stumble through the DLL project wizard in Visual Studio can write an ‘exploit’ for this vulnerability, and when the dust settles the lists will look a bit silly — virtually every Windows application will be found to be vulnerable in one way or another.
Does it matter? Yes. Is it cause for concern? Probably. Should we all panic about this new ‘glut of zero-days’? Not at all.”
DarkReading: Careful With That Third-Party Web Widget
“As more businesses continue to use third-party code in their websites and import content from other sites, the security of their visitors increasingly relies on others.”
SophosLabs: It’s that time again…
“It’s back to school time! I thought I might use this as a reminder to talk to your kids about computer security. We drill it regularly to our employees and readers, but honestly, kids need to be taught about this as well.”
Sell Sell: The Centre For Common Fucking Sense In Marketing
“You know the scenario. You’re in a meeting, you know full-well that something is going to work/isn’t going to work/is true/isn’t true, but someone will turn up with a deck of charts to prove themselves right and you wrong. And there you have it. The people with charts always win. The end.
…So in an attempt to help redress the balance, we are fighting fire with with fire. We are creating a body of charts to illustrate common sense. We’re sorry it has come to this. But here we are.”
Techdirt: Attorneys General Continue Grandstanding Against Craigslist
“These 17 attorneys general are effectively demanding that Craigslist stop making it so easy for them to find people involved in child trafficking. Here’s a great way for these AGs to actually do their job and to use the tools readily available to track down, capture and stop human traffickers, and their response is to grandstand and blame the company that helps them do that. Rather than fighting human trafficking, these AGs are further enabling it.”
All Spammed Up: Five Ways to Train Your Users to Identify Spam
“Teaching employees how to identify spam is a good idea on a few fronts, such as allowing spam administrators to better refine or tweak existing spam filters. In addition, savvy users dramatically reduce the possibility of malware being introduced through spam.”
Privacy Law Blog: Never Make a Promise You Can't Keep- Especially in Your Privacy Policy
“In a handful of cases, including two which were recently decided, companies have been thwarted in various, unexpected ways by the commitments made in their online privacy policies.”
CyberCrime & Doing Time: Major Fraud Ring Busted in Largest Chinese Cybercrime Operation
“548 Taiwanese police officers and 2,720 Chinese police officers took part in the operation which resulted in 450 fraudsters being arrested throughout Taiwan and in the Chinese provinces of Fujian, Huanan, Hubei, Anhui, Guangdong and Guangxi. After a joint operations agreement was signed between Chinese and Taiwanese authorities, more than 16 joint raids have been conducted leading to more than 1,000 arrests.”
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