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Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-09-02

As chaos and looting continue in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, online carpetbaggers and fraudsters are taking the opportunity to flood the Internet with fake charity Web sites and malicious code tied to the natural disaster.

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Katrina's destruction attracts online fraudsters 2005-09-06
Anonymous
The flip side of this issue is that some sites that are legitimately raising money for hurricane victims are having their donation accounts frozen - for an example: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=3186

This really is a case where usability and security need to come to a balance. We ...

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