November 21, 2007 – 12:09 am
This is a very popular format for the Bank of America spam email. The spammers are trying to lure you into clicking on a link to take to Bank of America’s online banking. The link you are actually clicking on which as shown in the picture of the email below is not exactly a “Click [...]
November 20, 2007 – 11:54 pm
Another one of the Pay Pal fraud emails floating around. The PayPal fraud email has a subject line of “Message from support, please confirm your information!”
The spammer doesn’t even try to obfuscate their email address with the reply email going to a @gmail.com address. Following is the content of that Pay Pal Fraud email which [...]
November 4, 2007 – 12:07 pm
If you are plagued with the annoying pop-up windows which say “Powered by Zedo”, I wrote an article on root777.com, describing in detail how to remove these Powered by Zedo popups.
These powered by zedo ad popups would usually launch in Internet Explorer or your default browser which might be Firefox and open up advertisements linking [...]
September 15, 2007 – 11:08 pm
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September 15, 2007 – 10:33 pm
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August 15, 2007 – 9:00 pm
When I investigated further trying to pinpoint the source of the UK Lottery Scam email, I discovered this that a University server was compromised and in turn was being used to send out spam emails.
Return-Path: <claimsagent_alenfoster207@yahoo.co.uk>
Received: from mail.westmont.edu (mail.westmont.edu [64.136.190.200])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b2si6730331rvf.2007.08.10.20.50.01;
Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:50:32 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 64.136.190.200 is [...]
August 14, 2007 – 8:49 am
The UK National Lottery Scam or the UK Lottery Scam is gaining popularity among fraudsters and scammers these days. Look at the typical content of such a fraud email and do not respond to such emails
Top 10 list of steps you should take to protect your information and your computing resources from the bad boys, girls and hackers of cyberspace.
An Associate producer of Dateline, a NBC show, Michelle Madigan tried to attend this year’s DEFCON psing undercover to get some hidden scoops. Watch the video where the organizers bust her
Uber Hacker turned Security Expert Kevin Mitnick has a business card that definitely goes with his high profile image. Kevin Mitnick is now a professional computer consultant (doing business as Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC), and has co-authored two books on computer security: The Art of Deception (2002), which focuses on social engineering, and The Art [...]