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Gaddafi’s death in spam

07

Nov

2011

“Nigerian” spammers are extremely quick to react to the world’s hottest news stories. News of the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had barely even broken before a string of emails from the “relatives of the deceased” began to appear. Gaddafi’s inconsolable relatives would be amazed if they knew how many emails had been […]

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Another certificate authority issues dangerous certficates

04

Nov

2011

Note: This story has been updated with commentary from Entrust at the bottom. Mozilla has announced they are revoking another intermediate signing certificate used by a registrar in Malaysia, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. According to the post, DigiCert Sdn. Bhd. (not to be confused with US based DigiCert) had issued 22 weak certificates (RSA 512) to […]

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How to check if your details have been compromised

02

Nov

2011

Ever wonder where the term “Pwned” came from? Rumour has it that is started with the game World of Warcraft (WoW), where a map designer, intending to write “the player has been owned”, mistyped it as “the player has been pwned”. In any case, it is widely used today to mean you have been screwed […]

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