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- chaddles, on 06/17/2008, -1/+39"sinister new turn"??? I don't think so... social phishing etc has been around for a while, nothing new to see here.
- craighoxton, on 06/17/2008, -1/+31Facebook is the biggest data mining op since the Spanish Inquisition
- SuckMyDigg, on 06/17/2008, -0/+24Nothing new here. Looks like some some journalist probably got his first trojan and now it's time to sound the alarms.
- spambutcher, on 06/17/2008, -0/+19What's next?
BREAKING: Nigerians have taken their "419" scams to the internet!
who the #@#$ is digging this crap? - lemonpies, on 06/17/2008, -1/+16"Organised crime has identified the web as a goldmine" - it took them THIS LONG to figure out there was money in this here internet !?! :D
- ZodiacKiller, on 06/17/2008, -0/+14STOP THE PRESSES!! STOP THE PRESSES!! BREAKING NEWS!!!
Your identity or personal information on publicly accessible computer networks has the potential to be compromised for unlawful purposes by tech savvy miscreants who utilize malicious software programs and trickery!!!
In other news today, NCSA has just launched what they refer to as a "Web Browser" named mosaic which they claim can display graphics as well as text from internet pages on your home computer via a device called a modem. Critics skeptical that this technology will catch on with the general public.
Also, compact disc players, are they really worth 500 dollars? And, should you throw away those cassettes just yet? In depth review on page 65.
- Rotzooi, on 06/17/2008, -0/+12Lame.
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+10This is tech savvy digg and that was the sort if article that should have appeared in Readers digest.
Buried - WoollyMittens, on 06/17/2008, -0/+7Scamming and fraud are illegal in the real world too. So why is it considered a punishment for naivety on the internet?
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+7Thank you for telling me what i already knew.
- 1ofMany, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6This 'article' had so much depth I'm burying it.
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+6Basic computer security knowledge and practice should prevent most of the attempts. Back in 2000, a friend of mine asked me for help for cos a porn video wouldn't play. The name of the porn file was something like 'xxxvideo.exe'. Duh!
- tonyDigger, on 06/17/2008, -0/+5Is this new?
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -1/+6Nobody expects the facebook just doesnt have the same ring as nobody expects the spanish inquisition.
- donte, on 06/17/2008, -1/+6Phew... good thing I don't use the internet.
- Kyrgizion, on 06/17/2008, -1/+5Let me embellish with an example. If someone you'd never seen came up to you on the street, and started claiming to be the prince of Nigeria and in need of someone to safeguard a few million dollars, would you believe them? If you did, would people tell you you were a bloody idiot for walking right into such an obvious trap?
Rule of thumb is: don't trust anyone/anything online that you wouldn't trust IRL. When my parents first started using the internet, I had to coax them quite a bit when they came running to me "OMG I've won this-and-that because I was 50000th visitor!". "Uhh, mom, I have some bad news..." - Premier, on 06/17/2008, -0/+4Education and safe surfing habits are still and will be key on the web, you don't have 3 new friends that want to talk to you no matter what that flashing banner says
- WoollyMittens, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Except that goldfarmers nowadays find it easier to just hack accounts through social engineering and take their gold that way.
- retawd, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Am I just extremely tired or was that article confusingly written? I understood it, but it took effort to follow what the author was trying to say even though it should have been obvious.
Does the sentence "It's relatively easy and it's the websites we visit every day that make it money for jam for criminals." make any sense? I'm on the tail end of a long day...
*****. I'm going to sleep. - forcedfx, on 06/17/2008, -1/+4+1 digg Looks like this took effort.
- Supernova36, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3"underground economy" Ftw!
- ancalagon73, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Please, there is no browser that is more secure than the other. MS products get targeted because most people use them. When Firefox or Opera become bigger you will start to see more virii targeted towards them. You really want to stay secure watch what you do on the net. Don't go to hacking sites, downloading software and music, browsing porn...wait, I'm forgetting what the internet is actually for. Never mind.
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3When I saw the title I thought I was going to read about something NEW. This kind of ***** has been going on for a long time.
- ICSU, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3Most of these frauds are, just like those not on the Internet, based on people's greed and stupidity.
- antoni0, on 06/17/2008, -0/+3with modern computers the security risk it's too often placed between the keyboard and the chair
- cheeseplease, on 06/17/2008, -1/+3Dude those foreign lottery e-mails are real. But thanks for not replying cause they sent them to me next and I'm a millionaire now.
Also made a great deal with a guy from Nigeria last year. Just had to watch his money for him and received $200,000. Ka-ching!
P.s. On a different note, my penis size has increased to almost double its original size due to some awesome special offers I received. Highly recommended! - inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2If you use (insert favorite browser here) the terrorists have won.
- inactive, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Fraud is rampant on the net..I receive at least a dozen emails a day claiming I have won a foreign lottery...My wife gets presented with several of these fraudulent payoff check at her bank and the people, many who are seniors, are devastated that they paid a "fee" to get this money..if something is too good to be true it probably is..beware !!
- wal9000, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2"The main purpose of this malware was to render the Microsoft web unusable for regular web surfers. It was written by a disgruntled consumer eager for notoriety."
The Microsoft web? What the hell is the Microsoft web? - HonoredMule, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2I don't think even Reader's Digest is that far behind the times.
- trenchfever, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2I'm more worried about the censor mafia who paid digg to get this article front paged.
- Flatlineskillz, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2RIP Sopranos. Internet Fraud might have made a good episode.
- mudgie, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2Sadly, if these stupid scams didn't work, then they wouldn't be around. Grandma checking her "electronic mails" isn't going to think twice before getting an email apparently from her bank asking her to confirm her credit card number.
I think I may go into journalism, seems like a cushy job where you can regurgitate old news and get paid for it. - inactive, on 06/17/2008, -2/+4STOP RIGHT THERE.
Firefox is barely more secure than IE. Use Opera or shut the ***** up. - mentor972, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2And how is this new?
If you are just learning about this and Digging it, you have a lot to learn about the internet. - ZombieCreep, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Captain Obvious Strikes in 2008.
"beware the internets, they want to steal your stuff." - switchmullet, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1buried as old
- Rulex, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1If they were smart they wouldn't be criminials right? right???
- ICSU, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2What does that have to do with fraud per se?
- Changa, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1It will be ok!
The goverment is developing "Clipper" chips to encrypt our banking transactions and such so it will be much harder for the hackers to steal your information.
Still I don't think the Browser will replace archie servers as you need a ppp connection just to use that web thing.
I'm gonna stick to my shell connection thank you very much. - devboy00, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1I'm sorry, this was weak... Although I'm a geek, so perhaps my perspective is skewed
- semvhu, on 06/18/2008, -0/+1Quotation marks. Learn them. They may save your life one day.
- PopcornDave, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1No kidding. I wish I could get a job where I write a simple column basically rehashing old information to the unwashed masses.
- HonoredMule, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Because it exists on the internet and the real world and expecting mere matters of illegality to protect you in EITHER is the heart of naivety.
People seem to expect complete anonymity, privacy, and freedom on the internet yet in the same heartbeat assume that their online environment is perfectly policed and completely untainted even by basic human greed. - PopcornDave, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Or the Weekly World News.
- Kyrgizion, on 06/17/2008, -3/+4Meh, everyone who knows their way around the 'net will know how to protect themselves and what kind of suspicious links not to click. It's a virtual culling of sorts, survival of the fittest - or net-savviest, in this case.
- HonoredMule, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1Ok, and how exactly do you expunge this security hole, once identified?
- hodedofome, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1They actually got this idea from the Canadians...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tE5pMKPb6M8 - hodedofome, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1They actually got this idea from the Canadians...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tE5pMKPb6M8 - billbert, on 06/17/2008, -0/+1yea, i heard theres lots of money way down californee way!
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