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Récemment, beaucoup d’exploits liés à la cybercriminalité commencent toujours de la même façon, à savoir au moment où quelqu’un ouvre un e-mail piégé, clique sur une pièce jointe, devient involontairement une victime mais aussi le maillon faible malgré lui.

With less than 16 hours to go, internet con men are taking advantage of the largest yearly event in sport. The American Super Bowl contest has garnered extra attention this year because the coaches of the opposing teams are brothers.

As usual, internet fraudsters are capitalizing on the spectacle and luring unsuspecting NFL fans into completing a survey. The purveyors of this survey are not who you think.

Within seconds of the news breaking that Pope Benedict XVI was to resign, spam began to appear on Twitter taking advantage of the story.

Messages using the hashtag #pope - but with no connection whatsoever with the developing news story of the first Papal resignation for hundreds of years - have sprung up on the social network.

Most of the messsages are being posted from accounts which feature images of young women in a state of undress (rather than a state of distress, which is what you would devout expect Catholic followers of @Pontifex to be feeling right now).