According to The Washington Post: An online banner advertisement that ran on MySpace.com and other sites over the past week used a Windows security flaw to infect more than a million users with spyware when people merely browsed the sites with unpatched versions of Windows… That’s really interesting….

According to The Register: hi-tech fraudsters are attempting to trick PayPal users into calling a phone number and giving over sensitive credit card account information. But it’s not the first case of “Voice Phishing”. On the same article we read: “The tactic follows the same patterns as a recently detected “phone phishing” attack targeting customers ...

This seems like a good idea to me: “Parents are to get safety advice on networking websites such as MySpace to protect children from paedophiles who could use the sites to “groom” victims. The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) will run a series of workshops in UK for parents, children and teachers.” More ...