Archive for February, 2010
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Phishing is all about getting people hooked, line a sinker, this time Amazon is the recipient of the Phishers focus.
It seems to be the usual DHL / UPS style scam, where a zip archive is attached to an email that carries the nasty payload.
Asking you to print the attached postal ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
I have used a number of Antivirus programs over the years. I was a big fan of Mcafee back in the DOS days, moved onto Nortons when it came with my PC (Threw it away when it got too bloated). Tried a number of others and then settled on AVG.
AVG ...
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Friday, February 19th, 2010
Well they keep rolling off the spam/scam production line.This one pretends to be an email from mail support of a specific domain. As with all of these mass email scams, they don't realise that the person they sent the email to manages all of the mail for that domain (Including ...
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Friday, February 5th, 2010
Many times there are things that show the US Centricness (Is that a word?) of the internet:
.com readily meaning US site
US date formats in online forms
USD as the default currency
Well another example is the idea that every country must use UPS and DHL for their parcels.
Why else would all of ...
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
I have received a Twitter email saying that:
Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset. Please create a new password by opening this link in your browser:
Now, funnily enough, I don't remember any phishing attempts coming ...
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