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Hotel booking confirmation emails aim to infect your computer. Watch out!

31

May

2012

Be on your guard against emails that claim to be about a hotel booking that you never made – you could be putting your computer at risk of infection by malware.Emails have been spammed out claiming to be a confirmation from the booking.com website about a hotel reservation.Chances are that if you received an email […]

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Something odd

08

May

2012

One of those odd things you see in proxy logs.. in this case, a load of outbound access attempts from guest machine like this: http://69.60.122.18269.60.122.182/ http://85.25.130.1285.25.130.12/ http://89.207.129.789.207.129.7/ http://91.230.147.23191.230.147.231/ http://174.37.202.166174.37.202.166/ http://184.22.165.50184.22.165.50/ http://204.45.70.162204.45.70.162/ http://207.244.209.239207.244.209.239/ http://209.85.148.101209.85.148.101/ Obviously, these URLs are malformed because the IP address is listed twice. But one of these stands out: http://91.230.147.23191.230.147.231/ is clearly “91.230.147.231” […]

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Phishing Using HTML and Intranet Security Settings

17

Apr

2012

Phishers always try to find new ways to bypass security features and trick ‘educated’ users. Over the years we have seen simplistic phishing attempts where the required information had to be typed into the e-mail body. This worked at that time because phishing was new and hardly anyone had a notion of the implications. Later, […]

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