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How To Phish

Learning how to phish for people’s ID and banking information isn’t really a problem. In fact phishing information is available on almost every story about the topic - even in the mainstream press.
Now, luckily the banks are starting to get pretty good with tracking down these guys and shutting them down, but the problem is […]

A Virus Does Some Good!

Ok, now this is where a computer virus has actually served the cause of justice!
If you spend a lot of time on the internet then there is a fair chance that you have recieved that email that starts “We have logged your IP address on more than 30 illegal websites. Please answer our questions. The […]

Are the Feds Reading Your Email?

There is a neat little trick to find out if your email is being read by anyone who shouldn’t be.
It basically involves access to a webserver and then setting up two email accounts - one domestic and one foreign.
Then you send yourself an email with a link to a unique and otherwise unreachable page on […]

7 Ways to Abuse the Internet for $$$

Digg It! We’ve decided to come up with a list of the ways that people have been using the internet to defraud, deflower and dethrone folks based on the motivation of the almighty dollar. Let’s face it - almost every time someone takes a piece of technology and decides to use it for evil, […]

The Beauty of DataBases and Library Loans

For any one who may have been concerned that people’s reading habits could lead to anarchy and insecurity, fear not!
It seems the government has well and truly got it covered.
For those who didn’t know, in the US every time you borrow book from the library, it goes on a database that is available to the […]