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Malware, spam, scams and random stuff, by Conrad Longmore.

Wednesday, 23 May 2007

Beborn Beton

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One of those things that you discover with Pandora - Beborn Beton is a seriously underappreciated German electronic band, mostly active in...
Saturday, 19 May 2007

It's 30 for a reason..

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I was just about to settle down to Dr Who, some beer and a pizza this evening when then was a horrible sound of a vehicle going out of contr...
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

Motorola RAZR2 V9 and V8

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A couple of new handsets from Motorola which look nice on paper.. the Motorola RAZR2 V8 is a GSM device with the very similar RAZR2 V9 which...
Saturday, 12 May 2007

Elstow Village Fete

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It rained. And then it stopped.. which was nice. This is a picture of the maypole dance on the village green, you can just see the Moot Hall...
Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Patch Tuesday

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A number of nasty looking vulnerabilities. These are my takes on the seriousness of these flaws, you should evaluate them against your own o...
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Tuesday, 8 May 2007

Sony Ericsson P1i

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A bit of a surprise this one - the Sony Ericsson P1i appears to be the replacement for the P990i but comes without a full QWERTY keyboard (o...
Monday, 7 May 2007

Electronic election counting in Bedford

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I've just finished a longish article on the Bedford Elections 2007 and the electronic counting fiasco . Bedford took place in a trial of...
Saturday, 5 May 2007

"Theft Case" spam

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Note: there are quite a few people called Eric Rapaport , who are perfectly normal people (such as this this one ) Unless you are research...
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Wednesday, 2 May 2007

What's the missing number?

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What's the missing number? 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 ?? D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 a) 145,600? b) 5B? c) Thursday? Calls are charged at £2 per m...
Friday, 27 April 2007

"Emirates Industrial Filters LLC" spam

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Another baffling spam from the UAE, this time advertising industrial filters. Attached to this spam is a whooping 970KB of attachments cover...
Wednesday, 25 April 2007

BAT/IRCFlood false positive in change.log.2

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I've been seeing a few false positives caused by the CA-VET virus scanner used in ZoneAlarm, CA eTrust and the CA ITM products (probably...
Tuesday, 24 April 2007

Malware via AdWords

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A typical approach to spreading malware is to hack a site and then inject an IFRAME pointing towards some obfuscated Javascript that then ev...
Monday, 23 April 2007

Al Mustajer Real Estate - Stupid, stupid criminal spammers

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It's been a little while since I've seen a spammer as stupid as Al Mustajer Real Estate who decided to hit me with 500 750kb word d...
Tuesday, 3 April 2007

ASUS.com web site, infected with .ANI exploit?

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I'm investigating a suspect file called BMW3.PIG which appears to have originated from the asus.com website, it's some sort of .ANI ...
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Monday, 2 April 2007

easyhost.be spam

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I really hate web hosts that spam, and easyhost.be is yet another one sending to scraped addresses, with the usual lie "You have receiv...
Thursday, 29 March 2007

"Internet Explorer 7 Downloads" - IE7.0.exe

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Another bit of malware this time masquerading as a terse email message to encourage the downloading of a fake version of IE7. It's a sim...
Wednesday, 28 March 2007

"The system is not fully installed": Windows XP, WMP 11 and Sysprep

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Kudos to lizardking009 for this post at the 2cpu.com forums. After using Sysprep to prepare a new Windows XP build for distribution to som...
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Monday, 26 March 2007

Fake "BlueMountains Greetings" message with a trojan

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Fake greetings cards are a common way of spreading trojans, and this latest Fake Bluemountain.com Email is a case in point. The message lo...
Saturday, 3 March 2007

Lunar Eclipse

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Clear skies and not too chilly, and the best lunar eclipse in years. This one taken at about about 2230 GMT (click the image to enlarge).
Thursday, 8 February 2007

Frozen Roadster II

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Big fat tyres + only 800kg in weight = no traction. Couldn't even get the Roadie out of the drive this morning on the snow! Fortunately,...
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