New Gmail Scam making the rounds
Again with the warnings: do not click on that link or reply to that email a new Gmail scam is making the rounds today. Don’t give out your e-mail information, including user name and password. The e-mail contains this text: We are shutting down some accounts due to congestion in our database system and your [...]
Protect Your Parents from Avis Budget: Direct Marketing Scumbags
This has been a year where people got mad in mass at financial institution. It’s hard not to when you think about the amount of money that flowed into their coffers and the size of expected bonuses this year – of all years. Frankly, it disgusts me. But I’m not one to take on the [...]
No, You Should Not Embed Referral Links Into Your Facebook Post
The audacity of people will always amaze me, and facebook just brings that home even more. You can’t trust your facebook friends sometimes, and here is why. Over the weekend I was quietly scanning through facebook and noticed that one of my facebook friends had posted a link to an offsite data storage system. This [...]
Scammers Jump on Google Wave Demand
In a not unsurprising turn, scammers have jumped on the demand for Google Wave invites to spread their latest round of fake A/V Software. This is not something that anyone in information security is going to be surprised by, a concurrent event that many people want to participate in or know of being used by [...]
Screen Size: The Next Plan to Cripple Netbooks in Order to Protect a Dying Market
The proliferation of affordable netbooks is good for everyone – consumers, that is. Computer manufacturers loath it (high volume, low margin business) and so does Microsoft: they can’t exactly sell $100+ worth of software on a $200 machine. So they come up with all sorts of evil plans. First there was the Windows 7 plan: [...]
