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- Michael Jackson's death themed malware campaigns spreading
- The sudden death of Michael Jackson quickly opened a window of opportunity for cybercriminals to capitalize on. With a malicious spam campaign, blackhat SEO search results poisoning which is serving scareware within the first 100 search results for Michael Jackson's death, and an opportunistic participant in Zango...
- Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, Spam, Michael Jackson, Malware Campaign, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- The ROI From Twitter: ???Don???t bother??? telling your CFO, O'Reilly says
- The ROI From Twitter: ???Don???t bother??? telling your CFO, O'Reilly sayshmTwitter is so up its own backsideTweets are important because Twitter says they arepressure to create tweetsand pressure to follow others' streamsemail address harvesting on Twitteretc etc
- Tags: ROI/TCO, Twitter, Don???t, ROI
- Discussion threads 2009-05-21
- News to know: Intel; WiMax, Oracle; Craigslist; Apple's WWDC
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: EC: Intel 'abused dominant position' vs AMD; fined record $1.45 billion in antitrust case Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: EU...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Craigslist, Richard Koman, WWDC, Oracle Corp., Apple Inc., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Virtualization, WiMAX, Corporate Law, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Security, Hardware, Wireless And Mobility, Business Operations
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time
- Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real timePeople still get spam??I think Gmail has made spam irrelevant, but let's test it and see.brett@brettschulte.comhttp://twitter.com/brettschulte/status/1789431680Fools plaster private data on a public domain PERIOD!Only a fool puts private data, pictures on a public domain for the world to see and manipulate ANYWAY...
- Tags: spammer, e-mail, Twitter, spam
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time
- Spammers are no strangers to the ever-growing Twitter. From commercial Twitter spamming tools, to re-tweeting trending topics for delivering their message, a new crafty search technique can provide spammers with fresh and valid emails harvested from Twitter's users in real-time. Basically, the search query consists of common...
- Tags: Spammer, Twitter, E-mail, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- How far does Conficker infection of British government go?
- I guess the question is whether we really expect that government IT is a highly sophisticated operation or that it's run with the same efficiency as the gasbags whom it serves. Friday, the Guardian reported that the House of Commons has been infected with Conficker, which...
- Tags: Infection, Network, Government, Virus, House, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-30
- New Symbian-based mobile worm circulating in the wild
- F-Secure and Fortinet are investigating a newly discovered mobile malware identified as SymbOS/Yxes.A!worm or "Sexy View". The malware is affecting S60 3rd Edition series devices, and has a valid certificate signed by Symbian tricking the mobile device user into thinking it's a legitimate application. In terms of propagation, "Sexy View"...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Malware, Symbian Inc., Worm, Mobile Malware, SymbOS/Yxes.A!worm, Advertising & Promotion, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Marketing, Security, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the market
- Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the marketIs this English?"I ?wonder? why is the originally blurred by the author Twitter account used in the proof..." RE: Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the marketThanks for posting this info. That's a nasty piece of software. I hope Twitter will now require legit email...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter, spamming tool, spamming
- Discussion threads 2009-02-04
- HotJobs site flaw leads to Yahoo account theft
- See update below for statement from Yahoo. Malicious hackers are exploiting a cross-site scripting flaw on Yahoo's HotJobs site to phish for Yahoo credentials, according to a warning from Netcraft. In the ongoing attack, Netcraft discovered that the vulnerability allows the attacker...
- Tags: Attacker, Flaw, Yahoo! Inc., XSS, Authentication, HotJobs, Netcraft, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- eMail Encoder 3.0.7.41 (Windows)
- Protect your email inbox. Posting your email address on a Web site is the best way to get your Inbox full of unsolicited email advertisements. This application, for Windows, protects your email addresses by converting them into encoded JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while still allowing your visitors...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, DigiSol UK, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-09-26
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Tags: Malware, Server, Bot, Spamming, Spamming Service, SET-X Mail System, MX, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Enkoder 4.0.1 (Mac)
- The Enkoder will protect email addresses you post on your website by encrypting the address and wrapping the result in JavaScript, hiding it from Email-harvesting robots which crawl the web looking for exposed addresses. Just paste the resulting JavaScript into your website's HTML. Your address will be displayed correctly by...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, JavaScript, Address, E-mail, Robots, Web Site Development, Scripting Languages, Online Communications, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-08-22
- E-mail Link Protector 1.06.719 (Windows)
- Email Link Protector is a software to protect your e-mail address, It can anti-spam solution that prevents spam bots from e-mail address harvesting on your Web site. Key Features: Encode 'mailto:' tag behind email address; Convert text-written e-mail address into an image; Automatically integrate anti-spam protection into selected pages (single...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Address, Eraidea Technologies, Email Link Protector, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2008-07-31
- Major career web sites hit by spammers attack
- What is the future of spamming next to managed spamming appliances, like the ones already offered for use on demand? It's targeted spamming going beyond the segmentation of the already harvested emails on per country basis, and including other variables such as city of residence, employment history, education, spoken languages,...
- Tags: Job, CAPTCHA, Web, Career, Spammer, Malware, Web Site, Spamming, Tool, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Outlook Message Extractor 4.1 (Windows)
- Outlook Message Extractor extract all Message/Attachment from Microsoft Outlook Choose your folders, everything is easy and automatic. You get a Clean Message/Attachment from this tools. We can Add Many Profiles in this software. Its Very Fast Software. The goal of our Message/Attachment extractor is to let you easily create mailing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, TechnoCom, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- Courier Email 3.6 (Windows)
- Courier sets a new standard of excellence for Internet email clients. With the ability to turn off display of HTML mail and an encrypted address book, Courier is immune to current email "worms" that replicate themselves by harvesting email addresses from the Windows Address Book and forwarding themselves to all...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Courier, Rose City Software, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-03-22
- WebExtract 1.0 (Windows)
- WebExtract is a very fast email extractor designed to find both targeted and untargeted email addresses from websites. It can find emails from specific areas of interest or countries of your choice. Keyword extraction: You can easily add thousands of keywords for WebExtract to process. If you would add a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Email Extractor Enterprises, WebExtract, E-mail, Web Site Development, Online Communications, Internet
- Software downloads 2008-02-29
- Even SSL Gmail can get sidejacked
- Even SSL Gmail can get sidejackedZDNet requires cookies to work...when using talkback. This is ridiculous. According to this blog, this is a security risk. Even though security is not a real issue when using talkback, requiring cookies, by this blogs own admission is not the most secure way to conduct...
- Tags: SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, E-mail providers, Network security, SECURITY, Last Line, SSL Gmail, SSL, Google Gmail, HTTP, KMail
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboards
- Harvesting data from children with cuddly creatures and cutesy keyboardsA scary anectdoteI remember, a few years ago while I was still in the Service, I'd come home on leave and went to a local minor league hockey game. Before letting us into the stadium, they did the wand test, and...
- Tags: Keyboards, Marketing research, bear, cutesy keyboard, cuddly creature, Build-A-Bear Workshop, creature, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
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