by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here’s a new one: Google Adwords phishing. According to the folks over at CSIS, the email reads like this:Dear Google AdWords Customer!In order to update your billing information, please sign in to your AdWords account at https://adwords.google.com, and submit your...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Just for grins and giggles, here’s some new rogue security products designed to extort money from you. March:unigray(dot)comspymaxx(dot)comspywatche(dot)compcprivacytool.com ...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
The phish basically says “I’m a student in Abidjan (the Ivory Coast), and I need money for school. Please send it to me.”(Please, no jokes from French people saying that this will work on Belgians, and vice-versa.)Alex
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
Still trying to get my mind around this one: …one of my close contacts has confirmed there is someone going around either hijacking, hacking or phishing user accounts on Facebook, then randomly uploading pictures of child torture to their funwall…So far, I have...
by Alex Eckelberry | Mar 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
Follow-up to my previous blog entry: In what must be the fastest turnaround in corporate history, Abary told me that the $49.99 charge is dead. “We didn’t intend that to happen,” he said, blaming the snafu on an internal miscommunication. “We’re removing the $49...
