Archive for November, 2007
Spam Tactics
As seen in the theregister, Spammers have been using the rarely used “I’m feeling lucky, punk” button and the idea of googlewhacking (popularised by Dave Gorman) for this google attack vector.
The trick worked because a spammer had managed to make a search query that was specific to their website, using an advanced Google search combining [...]
vishing and phishing together (more VoIP)
I like this combo attack of vishing and phishing…
Cloudmark reports that would-be fraudsters are taking advantage of VoIP systems to develop more convincing attacks. One recent email scam, for example, poses as a notification from a recipient’s bank requesting that they ring customer services to deal with a problem.
“If the recipient makes the call, it [...]
Password cracking… Hollywood style!
I was watching a good movie last night called ‘Along came a spider’ starring Morgan Freeman (Alex Cross). Two things I didn’t like about the movie though. Firstly, it didn’t stay true the novel at all. In fact, the novel actually appears to be more interesting. Secondly and the point of this post, there is [...]
Yet another leak…
The irony of this data leak story is very much in the given photo..
VOIP spam?
VOIP has been around the IP block for a few years. It’s still a confusing entity as to exactly what technologies are involved with it. Voice over IP is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet through any IP-based network. Under that definition that could include Instant Messaging (a.k.a. VOIM) such as MSN, Yahoo, [...]
