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Snooping on a Hotmail Phisher

14

Sep

2011

Here’s an interesting site that turned up in an unexpected place. I was looking through a list of likely Proxy Avoidance sites, and one turned out to be a “false positive” — it was a Phishing site, targeting Hotmail (Windows Live) logins: It gets interesting because you can see the name of the file in […]

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Facebook Free T-shirt SPAM!

13

Sep

2011

Spammers keep on using different techniques to hijack your social networking accounts. “Free Complimentary FB T-shirt” is observed to be the latest facebook spam. This spam posts an image on your profile when you are infected, as shown below. You might have noticed the link in the image is shortened in order to prevent the […]

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Is Al Gore asking permission to spam from your social networking account?

05

Sep

2011

Is this spam or not? I’m finding it hard to decide. But there’s certainly something about it which makes me feel uncomfortable with my security hat on. Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project is encouraging social networking users to “donate” their online accounts for what they call “24 hours of Reality”. During that time, the organisation […]

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