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I totally love Phishing when they are obviously juvenile

By Dan Morrill on October 26, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Security | Tagged Ebay, email, hacker, hacking, humor, phishing, spam

How to Prune Twitter Spammers if Your Account is Compromised

How to Prune Twitter Spammers if Your Account is Compromised

By Zoli Erdos on September 28, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Security | Tagged mafia, oauth, phishing, spam, twitter

An Example of a Really Poor Phishing Attempt

An Example of a Really Poor Phishing Attempt

By Dan Morrill on July 16, 2009

 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 […]

Posted in Security | Tagged attempt, e-mail, header, humor, phishing, phishing attempt, spam, spam bot | 1 Response

Where is Cloud Police?

Where is Cloud Police?

By Guest Authors on January 27, 2009

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). […]

Posted in Security | Tagged cloud police, devan, facebook, facebook connect, id theft, openid, passwords, phishing, Security, twitter, web indentity, web login, web security | 1 Response

Wake Up People, It’s More than Just Your Twitter Password

Wake Up People, It’s More than Just Your Twitter Password

By Zoli Erdos on November 13, 2008

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 […]

Posted in Security | Tagged id theft, openid, passpack, password manager, password security, phishing, Security, twitter, twitterank, web indentity, web login, web passwords, web security | 4 Responses

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