The BBC reports on changes in Nigeria that are meant to help fight 419 fraud: Virtually anyone with an email account will be familiar with this crime, which involves sending emails or faxes to potential victims around the world, sucking them into a highly attractive but utterly false financial deal. Back in Nigeria, the rewards … Continue reading Nigerian ISPs now liable for 419ers→
It always bothered me that the 419 scams in Nigeria seem to be linked to people who say that they are just playing the game of open markets. In other words, attackers ask why they should be blamed if they simply prey on others’ greed. A new story appeared last Thursday in the Guardian that … Continue reading The 419 Attack→
As I have pointed out here earlier, the rebrand of Twitter to a Swastika (X) was no coincidence. The Russian-backed acquisition of the platform, by a known white-supremacist who peddles baseless conspiracy theories, was designed to spread Nazism. So here we are. In assessing the rise of pro-Hitler, neo-Nazi content, ISD analysts found that content … Continue reading X Twitter is Now Primarily Images of Hitler→
After Israeli athletes were kidnapped and murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a phone was tampered with to assassinate one of those responsible. Mahmoud Hamshari, of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, was killed by his ornate marble base desk phone in Paris packed with explosives that detonated when he answered a call. Twenty two … Continue reading From Exploding Phones to Sabotaged Pagers: Unraveling the Hezbollah Intelligence Failure→