July 12, 2010 - “Ye Olde Facebook be an aid to findin’ and linkin’ with your crew…”Funny:(Click to enlarge)Thanks Rodney.Update 4:52 p.m. (continue reading...) Read more
July 12, 2010 - Oracle has announced that it will push a Critical Patch Update tomorrow fixing 59 security vulnerabilities in hundreds of Oracle products. The pre-release announcement said 21 out of 59 vulnerabilities are in the Solaris product suite.Vulnerabilities addressed by (continue reading...) Read more
July 9, 2010 - Twitter is filled with these “Free!!” deals (just search for the word “free” and see what slithers out.) We clicked on the shortened URL in the tweet (you should NOT do this at home) and landed here: (continue reading...) Read more
July 9, 2010 - Is it me or has the quality of trolls sunk to even more amateur levels?And, clicking on the attachment (kids, don’t try this at home) we get: (continue reading...) Read more
July 8, 2010 - Internet users in Australia are beginning to push back against Internet censorship with Web sites advocating political action as well as those giving instructions on the use of the Tor proxy network to avoid analysis by the censorsThe (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2010 - If you’ve been keeping an eye on the news you’ll probably be aware of a chap called Raoul Moat. If not, all you need to know is that he’s popping up in articles with titles such as “Timeline of (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2010 - Hat tip to Kevin Church for pointing this one out to me.Every now and again 419 scammers will use YouSendIt to send out their “please help me / send me money / travel to another country (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2010 - We recently investigated a “Work from home” recruitment spam email. A trail of web links revealed an interesting labyrinth of sites peddling expensive “training” courses that suggest they can teach you can make huge amounts of money with very little (continue reading...) Read more
July 7, 2010 - The AppleInsider site (not part of Apple) is reporting that Apple says about 400 iTunes accounts were involved Sunday when a Vietnamese developer’s applications were pushed to the top levels in the Apple App Store by fraudulent credit card purchases. (continue reading...) Read more
July 4, 2010 - You’ve probably already heard about what happened with Youtube yesterday – an XSS vulnerability allowed people to perform all manner of, er, interesting things on videopages (mostly involving Justin Bieber, but quickly spreading to random videos). It started with (continue reading...) Read more
July 2, 2010 - Oh dear. And when a writeup starts with that as an opener, you know you’ve got problems. This is a facebook page, with a rather happy cow on it: (continue reading...) Read more
July 2, 2010 - These links have been popping up over the last day or so, and seem to be related to the Twitter PDF spam run from a week or so ago. In all cases, the spam comes from accounts with names (continue reading...) Read more
July 1, 2010 - Here’s a Facebook phish that claims you’ve won $200,000,000 from “Zynga Special Gifts”, while displaying elements from the legit Texas Holdem Poker App page. It also pastes a popup box over the top: (continue reading...) Read more
July 1, 2010 - Advertising is to make money. And, as we’ve all seen in the onslaught of paper in snail mail boxes and the email jam in Internet spam filters, there is a vast army of (continue reading...) Read more
July 1, 2010 - Microsoft has said it’s seeing an escalating number of attacks exploiting the unpatched Windows Help and Support Center vulnerability that was publicized last month.Tavis Ormandy, a Google research, has drawn criticism for releasing details of the vulnerability (continue reading...) Read more
June 30, 2010 - Firmware update fixes the problemSony has issued a recall for its F11 and CW2 series notebook PCs and is offering a firmware update to fix an overheating (continue reading...) Read more
June 30, 2010 - Here’s another one of those “paste Javascript into your browser” scams that wants to make significant changes to the appearance of your Orkut account. The site in question here is 500-rs-recharge(dot)minhahomepage(dot)com. (continue reading...) Read more
June 29, 2010 - Here’s a curious scam putting users of Google’s Orkut in the crosshairs. There’s a number of sites out there claiming a “free recharge code” (presumably they mean call credits) will be posted to your Orkut scrapbook, but only if (continue reading...) Read more
June 29, 2010 - Not so long ago, I wrote about something called the Tango Toolbar. While digging around for more information, I actually came across another toolbar called “Tango” which is entirely unrelated (this one is about the dance, not...er...whatever the other (continue reading...) Read more
June 28, 2010 - Yet another pay-money,-get-followers scheme – right.THOUSANDS of followers!http://letgetmorefollowers.com/index.php?pages=HomeSee Chris Boyd’s Sunbelt Blog piece from earlier today: (continue reading...) Read more