Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Spam, Scams, ID Theft, Friends and Relatives
Here are a few of the latest spam emails going around. You get an email saying you have been videotaped in the nude, and click here to see the clip. You immediately think to yourself, it can’t be true. Can it? What if it is? I mean, what about all [...]
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Storm is Not Dead Yet, Plus Firefox and Safari
On Friday I reported that Microsoft claims it has essentially destroyed the Storm Trojan. You know, the one that has been rounding up computers into a botnet. Turns out, reports of Storm’s demise may have been exaggerated. Researchers at security company Trend Micro say Microsoft’s claims are simplistic and incomplete.
Storm [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News by Syd Tash
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Olympic-Sized Phishing Attacks
Since last December, more than a dozen separate email phishing attacks have been spotted, targeting or referring to the Beijing Olympic games. The subject lines mention the torch relay, tickets, the IOC, etc. Do not open such emails, and above all, do not click on any links within.
The latest flood of Olympic [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Alerts by Syd Tash
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
What Your Browser Reveals About You
Back on November 1, I talked about MS Word, and how it could be revealing a lot of information about you. Your browser may be doing the same thing. When you visit a Web site, it gets your IP (Internet Protocol) address, of course. This string of numbers is the “real” address [...]
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Web Sites: From Obama to Clinton, and The Storm Trojan
A few days ago someone hacked into the Web site of Sen. Barack Obama. The attacker injected malicious code into the social networking section of the site, to exploit a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
Cross-site scripting, or XSS, is used by sites that allow users to input data. But if the inputted code [...]
