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Category Archives: Security

APWG call for anti-fraud papers

07-May-08

The third APWG eCrime Researchers Summit will be hosted on 15–16 October 2008, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Original papers on all aspects of electronic crime are solicited for submission by 5 June. A cash award will be given for the best overall paper, and travel awards for those papers accepted for presentation at the event.

“Meta-refreshes” may initiate phone calls

26-Apr-08

You may be familiar with so called meta-refreshing, a kludge that is often used in attempts to mimic HTTP redirection or to reload the current page after a predefined period of time. This story describes a potential problem related to user agent support for such refreshing.