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

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

MS09-034 is coming..

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Just a reminder that Microsoft are announcing an out-of-band patch today to fix a critical IE / Visual Studio flaw. If you manually authoris...
Friday, 24 July 2009

"Best Crisis Prices": dotbestshop.com / bestcrisisprices.com fake shops

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I mentioned bestcrisesprices.com a few weeks ago , and it seems that they have a new domain called dotbestshop.com which is also a fake ec...
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Thursday, 23 July 2009

Even the bad guys need a back office

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Last November, I posted a warning about Ran-De-Vou which was recruiting for translators.. the problem being that the company was part of an...

"Real Host Ltd" is a real sewer

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Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Even more pathetic SpamCop.net phish

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I thought that phishing emails couldn't get more rubbish than this but it turns out that I was wrong. Enjoy: Subject: FINAL ACCOU...
Tuesday, 14 July 2009

43.gs: massive Google SERPs poisoning

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I can't tell if this is accidental or deliberate, but there are a whole bunch of spam entries in Google for the 43.gs domain as you can...
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Really pathetic SpamCop.net webmail phish

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Probably the most pathetic phish ever - the bad guys nicely provide a space in the email for you to put your username and password and then ...

Korea DDOS - run for the hills!

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The recent DDOS attacks against Korean and US government sites is well known, with calls for reprisals ranging from " cyber-attacks ...
Monday, 6 July 2009

Phorm: hahahahah

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With a bit of luck, it appears that Phorm may be going down the toilet , as BT announce that they are not going to deploy Phorm's deep p...
Thursday, 2 July 2009

Domain scam: ntwifinetwork.com / js-wifi.cn

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The old Chinese domain scam has been around for years, but these guys are getting lazy because they haven't changed their domains for mo...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009

%SI_subj: miserable spam failure

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Possibly one of the most miserable spam failures I have ever seen - the idiot spammer somehow forgot to populate the % fields with actual da...

Password masking facepalm

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A bizarre shot in the security vs usability argument, as reported by El Reg: Masked passwords must go which reports on research saying that...
Saturday, 27 June 2009

flyrating.com scam

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Flyrating.com is a re-run of the flyappraisals.com scam - a fake domain name evaluation service that is spamvertised through a bogus offer...
Saturday, 20 June 2009

Mystery mibug-credit.com / wiremouse.com spam

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This is one of those "wft" spams. Subject: Refund of Duplicate Payment From: "Customer Care Center" Date: ...
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Friday, 19 June 2009

FAIL: "Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook"

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This email looks like it's from Microsoft, but it is really intended to load a trojan onto your PC: From: Microsoft Customer Support [ma...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2009

WebTrends just doesn't get it

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WebTrends is a service I used to run a few years ago for web analytics, until the hundreds of dollars per month it was charging for analytic...
Thursday, 11 June 2009

Personal Computer World to close

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Noooo! According to the Guardian, Personal Computer World is to close after 31 years of publication. I've read it for 29 of those 31 ye...
Wednesday, 3 June 2009

mediahousenamemartmovie.cn / nonfathighestlocate.cn injection attack

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Another set of injection attacks seem to be doing the rounds, possibly related to the recent Gumblar attack . In this case, the injected cod...
Monday, 1 June 2009

flyappraisals.com scam

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Part of an ongoing domain name scam, flyappraisals.com is a fake domain name appraisal used in conjunction with a bogus unsolicited offer to...
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Friday, 29 May 2009

Bing.com is coming. W00t!

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Microsoft is launching a new search engine called bing.com on Monday. Given the current fashion for "reboots" in movies and TV sh...
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