by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
It always pays to be on your guard, as a phish attempt may crop up in the most unlikely of places.Sure enough, we have an example of a scammer going phishing on Play(dot)com, the second biggest online retailer in the UK market. Play allows individuals to buy / sell...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m almost certain this compromise of a .gov.uk domain (specifically, a page added to chickerell-tc(dot)gov(dot)uk) is supposed to be humorous, but you never know:Click to EnlargeIf the intention is to freak the site owners out with an introduction to those guys...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Not so long ago, we heard news of a “Playstation 3 rootkit” which turned out to be rumours based on misinterpretation of comments made in IRC.Today, we wake up to the alleged relevation that your “credit card info is not secure”...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
As you can see, the budding phish hunter needs to be careful – while using genuine login credentials and having all your information stolen to verify a phish is a new one on me, many phish directories can host malware, drivebys, extremely dubious...
by Alex Eckelberry | Feb 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Java is out of date on more than 40 percent of machinesWolfgang Kandeck, CEO of Qualys, said during a presentation at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco that 80 percent of browsers his company’s BrowserCheck service checked were missing one or more patches,...