Entries Categorized as 'Internet'

New egold pishing email

Date June 9, 2006

Warning new pishing email around:
AccountRobot_donotreply @ e-gold. com
** e-gold Account Information Notice **
Time of update: 09/06/2006 03:12:15 AM GMT

This automatic email notice lets you know that modifications have been
made to the Account Information settings for your e-gold account.
The current settings for your account can be viewed and modified at the
e-gold website: https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html
Enter your account [...]

HP Mistakenly Distributes Drivers Infected with Virus

Date June 3, 2006

Hewlett-Packard yesterday pulled a printer driver from its Web site after security vendor BitDefender reported that the software was infected with the same computer virus that infected HP’s drivers more than five years ago.
A BitDefender partner notified the security vendor of the infected driver software earlier this week, and the company’s security researchers soon [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

Date June 3, 2006

The award-winning, free Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It’s easy to import your favorites and settings and get started.
Version 1.5.0.4 is a security update that is part of our ongoing [...]

Precaution Regarding Scam Emails

Date June 2, 2006

Dear Compactsurfing Members,
I have received several emails from concerned members following the news update just sent regarding the scammer email sent out claiming to be from Compactsurfing administration.
Members have told me that they received the scammer message to email accounts that they only had on record with recently closed autosurf programs. Keep in mind that [...]

Kind of attack to HYIP and Autosurf programs

Date June 1, 2006

This is an example of what autosurf and hyip programs are being attacked:
Blue Security Kicked While It’s Down
Hours after anti-spam company Blue Security pulled the plug on its spam-fighting Blue Frog software and service, the spammers whose attack caused the company to wave the white flag have escalated their assault, knocking Blue Security’s farewell message [...]

The biggest hacking incident in the web-hosting history

Date May 23, 2006

Roberto Preatoni (SyS64738)
05/18/2006

We received a mail from stokia.com fellows with an interesting analysis on the incident:
“The hack seems to have been done through a asp script that is automatically installed on all hosting customers accounts on these particular servers.
The mass defacement was placed in a sub directory on each site. /ssfm/isko.htm
A search on google for: [...]

Egold new pishing email

Date May 20, 2006

I just received the following message from a supposed “TAXRobot”,
asking me to pay 1.161 US$. Obviusly a phishing attempt. Thought
everybody should know about this:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: TAXRobot_donotreply TAXRobot_donotreply@e-gold.com
Date: May 20, 2006 8:12 PM
Subject: Notification of e-gold tax payment via SCI
To: xxxxxx@gmail.com
Dear E-gold customer,
We found right to take a tax payment from every E-gold customer [...]