The article below from the Jamestown Foundation illustrates a new and more organized version of electronic jihad. Given the growing sophistication of the genre it can’t be long before this leaks over into virtual worlds.

Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed on Radio 5 Live by Chris Valance regarding the possibility of Money Laundering in Virtual Worlds, an interview in which Steven Philippsohn, Chairman of the Fraud…

Many thanks to Chris Valance over at the BBC for highlighting MetaSecurity on the BBC Pods & Blogs section here. As a frequent listener to many BBC Radio 5 Live shows (Which you can download from the BBC archive) I can highly recommend his show (and a number of others, their football coverage in particular also being great).

Singapore based FirstMeta has launched the first virtual currency credit card.

Full story over at techcrunch.

Peta (People for the ethical treatment of animals) are scheduled to host a week long anti-fur protest in Second Life. Peta is a single issue protest group that successfully highlights Animal Rights causes. It has an interesting history with the more militant part…

The excellent commentator on Second Life — Gwyneth Llewelyn recently published a piece in her blog entitled: From Welfare State to Laissez-Faire Capitalism. The blog itself is always worth reading for the insight it provides relating to the history and future of Second Life. Of interest to…

McAfee now sees more malware programmed to steal passwords for World of Warcraft now than trojans aiming for banking information, said Craig Schumager of the McAfee research labs. In talks with Erik Larkin at PCWorld.com, he outlined why fake…