Safe Netting

It isn’t very often we can brag about victories against the organized crime industry on the web, but here are three we just have to wave our flags over … , and a major rogue ISP goes to the slammer…

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What happens if ICANN is privatized in September? The board of the internet governing body is no longer accountable to any entity. The organization is already failing to properly administrate the DNS system, once government overview goes away, so does all manner of accountability and private security. Privatization must be stopped.

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You’ll remember reports on recent Facebook phishing attacks — last week the criminals were back with escalated attempts to disrupt and takeover. Even after the first wave was quickly squashed, they circled back for a second barrage.

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Tax time has arrived, and organized crime online is looking for your identity! In this report we cover: * The world’s most poisonous phish * Beware of tax scams and phishing * Get Ponzi-scam relief * The cybercriminal underground * Get Smart and make your iPhone smart * The Microsoft Blog: Frustrating facts about e-mail * Spam lower in Feb, botnets still lurking … in this Phishing Update

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Protecting copyright and intellectual property on the web has been a sticky subject and matter of great discussion since the 1990s. When Napster first brought the issues of downloading proprietary information from the web to the forefront, no one thought it would take long to resolve the problem. But P-2-P is here to stay, [...]

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The phishing / malware attack I warned about last week must have paid off for the criminals because they have launched a second attack around 3 am, EST.

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This extensively researched essay examines online pharmacy drug purchases, who is profiting, who is buying, and who is dying as a result. Pass this one along for sure …

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FACEBOOK PHISHING ALERT — There are several new waves of phishing attacks hitting over the weekend, and today around lunchtime a new slant on the FaceBook Phish came in.

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“It’s like a walking surveillance device,” says Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a consumer watchdog group.
“The Big Brother aspect of it is troubling,” says Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., former chairman of the powerful House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.

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You thought social networking was for the kids right?

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