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“There is no magic fairy dust protecting Macs" – Dai Zovi, author of “The Mac Hacker’s Handbook"

Dear Facebook….

June 22nd 2012

How do I say this nicely…. No I will NOT give you $7.34AUD to “promote” a post.

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Will I succumb to temptation???

June 22nd 2012

  Ok, so I checked out the link (only from within an isolated VM, and after checking out what the URL will do using analytical tools – don’t try this at home boys and girls). For what it’s worth, you end up at a survey or prize win page which changes depending on what country […]

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Scareware makes it way to mobile devices…

June 21st 2012

  Well, I suppose it had to happen sooner or later http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/06/beware-scare-tactics-for-mobile-security-apps/   Image source: krebsonsecurity   According to Brian’s article, the advertisement linked to in the overlay image (now gone, apparently) was hosted by mobilevisitor.org – that domain is reported as new, having been created on 6 June 2012, and with its ownership hidden […]

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Fake Intuit email…

June 20th 2012

As you will see, the hyperlinked words “enter this site” do not take you to an Intuit website.

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Fake Verizon Wireless emails

June 15th 2012

As always, please don’t click on the links.

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Fake UPS email

June 15th 2012

Don’t click on the links!

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IE7 being blocked by kogan.com

June 14th 2012

  I do understand the sentiment – IE7 is long superseded, with IE9 being the latest and IE10 in development: http://www.news.com.au/technology/kogan-wages-war-on-internet-explorer-users-taxed/story-e6frfro0-1226395298505 That being said, why doesn’t Kogan simply block access to IE7 users rather than try and make money off them – that is possible to do with appropriate scripting – and solves the problem […]

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Non-English (Dutch) Mastercard spam

June 4th 2012

Rough translation…   Spam email: As always, when you hover over a link, it becomes obvious that the email is not legitimate: If you give in to temptation (of course, never do so unless you are working within a properly sandboxed virtual machine that you can “nuke from orbit” if needs be) you will see […]

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Twitter spam…

June 3rd 2012

  After bouncing through various URLs (including one in Russia) you end up at a fake Twitter log in page: http://wepawet.cs.ucsb.edu/view.php?hash=a9f9677418fa2d11d0b6eddda93e6e3b&t=1338784045&type=js   Note the non-Twitter URL.  

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