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

Thursday, 30 August 2007

"Harvey Investment Company" bogus emails

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The Harvey Investment Company is a wholly legitimate organisation with a domain name of harveyinvestment.com . However, there are also a se...
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

"Vegas Casino World" trojan

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This is yet another variant of the Storm worm which has been sending out bogus postcard notifications and the like for some time now. The em...
Tuesday, 14 August 2007

Netgear WG511 V2 Review

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What do I think of the Netgear WG511 V2 ? This is what I think of the Netgear WG511 V2.. a completely and utterly useless wireless network...
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Thursday, 9 August 2007

Email "dating scams"

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Sometimes scammers will try to lure you with a "dating scam" - usually a trick to gain money or possibly a visa. The basic setup ...
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Wednesday, 8 August 2007

"Comcast Automated Systems" Trojan

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A trojan embedded in a ZIP file this time. It's attempting to use a filename of statement.pdf [lots of spaces] .exe Subject: Importan...
Sunday, 5 August 2007

"S-Pharm" scam

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Another money laundering/money mule scam, this time from "S-Farm". As before, money transfers of this type are illegal and you wi...
Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Wheredidyoubuythat.com spam - update

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I got a nice comment from the company on this one: My name is Karine Kong, Director from www.wheredidyoubuythat.com First of all, please acc...

"Syndey Car Centre" scam

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This particular scam has been around for a few weeks now, for a wholly fictitious company called the Syndey Car Centre . Although they do ha...
Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Empireonline.com compromised

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The popular movie site Empireonline.com was compromised this morning, with a rogue IFRAME - this was around 9am UK time this morning. The si...
Friday, 20 July 2007

Wheredidyoubuythat.com spam II

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Another phish sent to the compromised Wheredidyoubuythat.com mailing list, again targetted to the UK. Again, no evidence to say that Whered...
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Thursday, 19 July 2007

Wheredidyoubuythat.com spam

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Online gift shop Wheredidyoubuythat.com had its email database compromised a little while ago. I'm currently getting a spate of fraudul...
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Monday, 16 July 2007

"Sup-Cables International Limited" scam

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"Sup-Cables International Limited" is another money mule scam - the basic operation here is usually laundering stolen money or cas...
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007

MS07-039 clarification

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Yesterday was Patch Tuesday, and amongst the usual load of vulnerabilities was MS07-039 - Vulnerability in Windows Active Directory Could Al...
Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Another employment scam

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Received a few of these from the faked name "Colin Scowcroft" (you can be assured that no person with that name is involved). It...
Monday, 9 July 2007

Google to acquire Postini for $625m

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Big business, this spam thing. Google has just announced a $625m plan to buy Postini ( more here ). The deal is an outright cash purchase to...
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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