by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Carries return email address on Belarus server with blocked WhoisIt seems that Mr. Liu Yan of the Bank of China Ltd. in Hong Kong has sent me an email message (from dogyoungshop.com – which is in Taiwan, oddly enough) to inform me that the estate of the late General...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Not so long ago, I wrote about a Botnet creation tool that allowed you to insert your Twitter username into your bots and control the infected computers via commands posted to Twitter feeds. This time around, we have something a little different:Isn’t it cute?...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Anti-spam group KnujOn (“NoJunk” backwards), a member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), has issued a nearly 100-page report detailing how some domain name registrars are actively shielding pharma and other illegal groups...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
For a month or so now, support sites and Question / Answer services such as social.answers.microsoft and Yahoo Questions have been looking like this:Two common themes: nobody seems to know where they get it from, and nobody can uninstall it. Out of all the threads...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jun 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
As we were trolling the ugly underbelly of the Web for the latest in malicious gimmickry we couldn’t help but notice the “membership plan” shell game played on a site devoted to helping men find “lonely housewives” to apparently add joy...
