If you don’t have an email address, or if you have a great spam filtering engine, you may not be among us throngs who have been flooded with spam linking to a “postcard from a family member”. The spams have a link in them and you’re encouraged to click:
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:25:01 +0200
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When I began a while back to generate a study of interesting cyber attacks to see if there were any common themes and to perhaps make some attempt at generating a chronology of such activity and it’s evolution, I ran across Minihan’s comment “Peace really does not exist in the Information Age“. That pretty much […]
In case you haven’t already heard, a variety of websites, including those with content about “fish and tackle,” have been identified as having been compromised so that when people browser to the site, they’re then re-directed to an alternate location, where the host is then compromised so that attackers could then steal potentially sensitive data, […]
The FBI sent out a press release stating that 1 million homes may be infected with bots. Arbor Networks’ Chief Research Officer, Danny McPherson talks with CNET editor Robert Vamosi about “Operation Bot Roast.”
It seems the text cited below has been updated on the FBI’s release, with the “You should contact your Internet service provider” bit removed, and replaced with “Ways to Protect Your Computer“.
See, they indeed do listen! Now I have no complaints about Operation: Bot Roast — though that does remind me, it’s getting time […]
