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This particular pitch has been around for a long time - a domain name registrar (or reseller) who is "checking" about a domain reg...

NiSource is a US electricity and gas provider. This spam appears to be a Joe Job aimed at the DNS support mailbox at that company. In this ...

Don't give the monkeys a socket set (source: IET )

songmeanings.net is a popular and relatively crud-free lyrics site that attracts millions of visitors a year. Alexa ranks it as about the 5...

A copy of the recent Pedma.com domain appraisal scam, this time with the name pozde.com. The pitch is something similar to the following: ...

From time-to-time I get a unsolicited offers to buy domains that I hold, so it isn't wholly unexpected to get the occasional email about...

Here's an oddity when typing "Adobe" into Google. The first ad refers to a web site called Adobe9.0-PDF.com - that's no...

The BBC's lightweight tech program "Click" took over a botnet of 20,000 machines to demonstrate the perils of zombie PCs. The...

Well, this is interesting. Users of Norton Antivirus are finding an application calls PIFTS.EXE that is try to call out. But every time anyo...

An unusual bit of social engineering here: Subject: Classmates personal message: Please help me to decide which way to choose From: ...

There are several different layers of fraud and deception when it comes to offering and applying for jobs. This particular approach is via a...

Why anyone would want to phish for a Tripod account is beyond me, but for some reason webmail accounts seem to be a target. This phish for ...

This seems to be an emergent threat at this moment - a number of ASP / SQL / Windows site have been hit with a SQL injection attack with the...

CA eTrust has thrown up a couple of problems - first a false positive identifying Win32/Tnega.AC in the setup.exe for Office 2000 Professio...

"The offer you can not say no to!" Really. I betcha I can. My notes are in bold . Subject: The offer you can not say no to!...

A genuine "wtf" spam here: Subject: BREAKING NEWS - The Pope has been discharged from his office From: "Press Off...

A couple of bits of weird spam today, number one: Subject: Warning! Virus detected A possible virus was found in this message. The vir...

I really, really hate these contact managers that spam out invites to everyone's contacts. UNYK.com seems to be the latest of these: S...

This looks like a false positive: BitDefender is reporting Trojan.Generic.1423603 in C:\windows\system32\winlogon.exe. This name is sometim...

A couple of items of interest from The Register: OpenDNS rolls out Conficker tracking, blocking This seems like a great idea, especially ...