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Crime. On your computer. Geddit? Photo by alancleaver_2000 on Flickr. Some rights reserved
A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Fighting Cybercrime Today >> TrendLabs
Anthony Arrott: "For example, in just one day—September 14, 2010—we received 6.2 billion reputation queries for email. We blocked 4.4 billion. For Web reputation, we received 41 billion queries. We blocked 585 million. With this amount of information, we're able to acquire in-depth data that helps protect our customers and provides insight into the current threat landscape." Fascinating view of spam- and cybercrime-fighting. Nokia N8 hits the streets (photos) >> Nokia Conversations
"Today [Oct 1] was a special day for many folk as they were the first to get their hands on the brand new Nokia N8. Stores in Helsinki, Beijing, Shanghai and Moscow were packed as eager customers queued up to get their hands on the new N8." The new stats pages on AMO, or how I learned to love HTML5/CSS3/new JS APIs >> Mozilla Webdev
"A lot of the demos of HTML5 and its associated trappings spend great effort trying to visually dazzle, and it's way too easy to write it all off as nothing but eye candy. What people forget is that a lot of the new features in modern web browsers have practical ways to make the development process cleaner, the user experience faster, and the end-result more sophisticated." 'The Social Network': A Review Of Aaron Sorkin's Film About Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg >> Larry Lessig
Writing in the New Republic, the highly rated law professor isn't impressed. stop @mentions >> paper.li
While it's nice for some people to know that they have a mention in the "paper.li" daily "papers", others don't like it so much - and this is the page where you can stop them. Google lateris nescis >> Kottke.org
"Lorem ipsum" is how placeholder text begins when you want to fill a page with meaningless but apparently English-like text. But now that Google Translate can translate Latin to English, we can find out what it means.. right? First reaction to Microsoft patent infringement action against Motorola over Android >> FOSS Patents
Unimpressed is the short version. Plenty of good links there makes it informative. Microsoft Files Patent Infringement Action Against Motorola >> Microsoft.com
"Microsoft filed an action today in the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola, Inc. for infringement of nine Microsoft patents by Motorola's Android-based smartphones."
Ah, and so it begins. ZBot gang suspects arrested in the Ukraine >> Graham Cluley's blog
"It's certainly encouraging to see the computer crime cops around the globe working closely in partnership to tackle the increasingly organised nature of international cybercrime rings.
"After all, these crimes are no small beer. The scam being investigated by the authorities is said to have resulted in more than $200 million being stolen from consumers and businesses." cssPad: an iPad made with CSS using Quplo >> Quplo
"I made it so I can use HTML and CSS for prototyping interactive apps before building them in XCode, as HTML and CSS are an ideal and flexible way to prototype." Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers >> Ars Technica
"The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a significant number of popular Android applications transmit private user data to advertising networks without explicitly asking or informing the user." You can follow Guardian Technology's linkbucket on delicious To suggest links, tag articles on delicious.com with "guardiantech"
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