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RSS hoaxPolice shame 999 time wasters on YouTube
News The force has posted the 999 calls on YouTube and hopes it will help track down hoax callers, who face up to six months in jail and a £5,000 in court. We will not tolerate this sort of behaviour and anyone making... [29 Jul 2008]
10 Internet threats your users should ignore
White Paper Even your most savvy users can get fooled into thinking a phony virus warning is real, perpetuating the hoax by forwarding it to other users. Meaningless technical-sounding jargon, such as the variant of the Good Times... [18 May 2006]
Cyber cops investigate Manchester police DoS attack
News The customer service number turned out to be the switchboard at Cambridgeshire police, which was deluged with thousands of calls from people who had received the hoax email, although the culprit was eventually tracked... [12 Jul 2005]
Police chief battered by cyber attack
News The customer service number turned out to be the switchboard at Cambridgeshire police, which was deluged by thousands of people who had received the hoax email, although the culprit was eventually tracked down and arrested. [03 May 2005]
Tsunami charity website hack - UK man charged
News Another UK man was jailed for six months after his email hoax informed families searching for relatives missing in the midst of the tsunami crisis that their loved ones were dead. A London man is to appear in court next... [11 Feb 2005]
Tsunami hoaxer jailed for sick joke
News A UK man has been jailed for six months after a sick email hoax informed families searching for relatives missing in the midst of the tsunami crisis that their loved ones were dead. According to a report on the BBC the... [24 Jan 2005]
Tsunami email hoaxer charged
News A British man has been arrested in London and charged with sending hoax emails to individuals telling them they had lost relatives in the tsunami disaster which caused devastation in coastal areas of Indonesia, Sri... [04 Jan 2005]
Who's a silly boy then?
News Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Scott McNealy showed a photo during a Wednesday speech to illustrate how rapidly technology improves--but instead illustrated another computing phenomenon: how easy it is to fall for an Internet... [09 Dec 2004]
Lycos knocks spammers off the web
News There is, however, no conclusive evidence either way on whether the defacement was a hoax or not. Web portal company Lycos' 'Make love not spam' campaign has killed access to some of the websites of its target spammers... [02 Dec 2004]
Latest 'Bush' spam alleges rigged election
News The latest hoax email purporting to come from George W Bush has the US President this time admitting to a series of election frauds - after previous spam emails also claiming to come from Bush had him offering a litany... [10 Nov 2004]
IM virus hoax threatens bandwidth drain
News One such hoax, propagated by well-meaning recipients who are urged to share the information with all their contacts, says there is an IM virus out there which will destroy hard drives and wipe data. According to the... [02 Nov 2004]
Hackers post 'confession' on football ref's website
News Swiss football referee Urs Meier who controversially disallowed an England goal at Euro 2004 has had his website defaced by hackers who posted a hoax message apologising and confessing that he took a bribe. [22 Oct 2004]
Bloggers' hoax theory over Bush military service memos
News Over the weekend the internet has been abuzz with bloggers' claims that the memos about President Bush's time in the National Air Guard publicised by CBS were actually a hoax. It's too early to say whether the bloggers... [13 Sep 2004]
Inside offshoring: Managing the risks
Comment The company was forced to evacuate 10,000 people from its BPO facility every time the blackmailer emailed a hoax bomb threat. Articles and commentary on IT offshoring and BPO in India and elsewhere will be appearing on... [02 Jun 2004]
Cisco source code published on the web
News One participant suggested that they might be a hoax because Cisco was not capitalised in the source code. An unspecified amount of the proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware has appeared... [17 May 2004]
