I totally love Phishing when they are obviously juvenile
Well Ok I love it when Phishers are really being idiots, and yet another phising attempt fails to snare its intended victim, namely me, and namely because the phisher is being very stupid. I do a lot of shopping online so I am fairly sensitive to the loss of an account or someone trying to […]
How to Prune Twitter Spammers if Your Account is Compromised
I’ve just received one of those “Hey, I just added you to my Mafia family. You should accept my…” crap-spam-junk invitations on Twitter. Normally these come from accounts I don’t recognize, and I either ignore or block them. But this time it came from a gray-haired, well-respected industry analysts – I just could not imagine […]
An Example of a Really Poor Phishing Attempt
Every once in a while you get to see a really bad poorly crafted phishing attempt on your account. Surprisingly enough, not enough examples of a poorly crafted phishing attempt are on the internet. Here is my contribution to the body of knowledge on really poorly crafted phishing attempts. Nothing has been edited to protect […]
Where is Cloud Police?
If you happen to be the unfortunate victim of someone breaking into your home (and I pray that you never are), the first recourse is pretty much the same around the world – you would put a call in to your local emergency services, i.e. 911 (or 000 as it is over here in Australia). […]
Wake Up People, It’s More than Just Your Twitter Password
Ah, what an ego-boost, you can now display your Twitter rank .. I mean your Twitterank. All you have to do is enter your Twittter userid and password: How nice … but perhaps a bit dangerous? Twitterrank is a vast conspiracy I created to steal all of your passwords and shame Twitter into OAuthing. And […]
