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Unlike the US, where the theft of a mobile phone virtually guarantees that the device will be rendered permanently useless, mobile phone theft is quite commonplace in Europe and other locales, and some thieves are finding inventive ways of… stashing their loot.

So far the Guardian has uncovered not one, but two instances of women stealing mobile phones and stashing them… well, where no mobile phone has gone before…

Suffice it to say that a shaken officer Aurel Popescu commented: “I’ve seen a lot in my time as a policeman but never anything like this.”

The phone’s owner has refused to take the device back, declaring it was “damaged beyond repair and he would be filing an insurance claim.”

I probably would too. Though fortunately for me, my phone is of a rather odd shape that would end up feeling quite uncomfortable if hidden… there.

The new weapon of choice for phishing gangs appears to be the establishment of fake blogs:

Websense said it had seen examples of some computer criminals creating a legitimate looking weblog, loading it with keylogging software or viral code, and then sending out the address of it through instant messenger or spam e-mail.

“These aren’t the kind of blog websites that someone would stumble upon and infect their machine accidentally,” said Dan Hubbard, Websense’s research director. “The success of these attacks relies upon a certain level of social engineering to persuade the individual to click on the link.”

Just great. So now, just as every netizen has to be suspicious about their e-mail, they must now be skeptical about any new blogs they come across.