I’ve just noticed a new feature on my blog, the Akismet spam stats. From looking at the Akismet blog, I’ve realised that it’s been on there for about a month before I got round to noticing it, but it has pretty graphs on it. It shows a breakdown of your comments by spam (unwanted comments); [...]

If you weren’t already sufficently paranoid about data security (although whether it can be described as paranoid when people are out to try and steal your money is maybe open to debate), here’s a new one for you. Imagine you bank online. Imagine you’re at home, with a totally secure connection to your bank; you [...]

Yes, it’s my monthly trawl through the spam archive. This is becoming less fun; now 95% of the spam posts comprise solely of a series of links, which unless there’s something particularly stupid about them, means that they are considerably less interesting, as I don’t particularly want to actually have to read a long series [...]

Yes, it’s that usual trawl through the spam to see what delightful comments have been heading in my direction over the last month. i read your article..the things you have written sound very sincereSpammer ‘A’ I could understand this as a legitimate comment if I had been talking about something deeply personal, or some beliefs [...]

Welcome to my monthly selection of the spam that’s popped into my spam comments filter over the last month. This month, there is no robust language and not really any explicit sexual content, so if you were likely to be offended, then you probably won’t be. If you see what I mean. I have seen [...]

I was reading the blog of that nice chap from Sophos recently, and came across an article about phishing, once more recounting the story of someone who has supplied their bank account details to fraudsters and had their account cleared out. …29-year-old mother from Wigan, England. Sarah has been left with thousands of pounds worth [...]

If you’re a facebook member, current thinking would suggest that you either need to be at risk of information being exposed which could potentially be used in a social engineering attack against you or you can break the law. It’s your choice. Why is this? Well, according to Graham Cluley from Sophos: …last night I [...]

…there’s a hole in my browser, dear Liza, a hole. Or at least there would be if I didn’t update it regularly with security patches. More than 83% of Firefox users were using the latest, most secure browser version, compared to 65% of Safari users, 56% of Opera users and 47% of Internet Explorer users…”Failure [...]

I attended the virtual Security Seminar The Evolving Security Landscape today, as brought to us by those nice lads and lasses at The Register. Slightly disappointingly for a technology seminar, we were specifically instructed to view the seminar with Internet Explorer, as the slides wouldn’t work in Firefox. Bad form, guys. Get this one sorted [...]

Yes, it’s this time again, when I sift through the comments that have been consigned to the spam bin and see if I can attempt to salvage any meaning from them. Except in this case I have noted spammers seem to be posing more questions, so I am going to see if I can provide [...]