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Tag Archives: Phishing
Tumblr is back on my good side
In a piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago I’d brought up the problem of Tumblr hosting phishing/malicious web sites. Well after a few days of my feeding examples to Tumblr’s support team, and they taking down the sites, I haven’t … Continue reading
Malware or Not?
I’ve been doing an interesting experiment, in a virtual machine on a separate PC with no personal information at all on it. I’ve been going through SPAM emails and clicking on every link to see what happens. It is an … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Phishing, Security
Tagged Anti-Malware, Crazy Slots Casino, Grand Casino, IE9, Immunet, malware, Microsoft Security Essentials, Phishing, SPAM
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Is Hotmail’s “Trusted Sender” feature more than just show?
One year ago Microsoft introduced a feature in Hotmail that marked mail from a set of “trusted senders”, primarily banks, with a Trusted Sender icon. The idea was that if mail from your bank was marked with the icon you … Continue reading
Has Microsoft put the nail in the coffin on SenderID?
A funny thing happened on my way to some research on Anti-SPAM technologies, I found that Microsoft is wiping SenderID information from its website. When you try going to the web page for the SenderID Framework you are now redirected to a … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Security
Tagged DKIM, email, Microsoft, Microsoft DKIM, Microsoft Sender ID, Microsoft SenderID, Phishing, Sender ID, Sender ID vs. SPF, SenderID, SPAM, SPF
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Time and Malware
I’m in the process of setting up a PC that I’m going to use exclusively for playing around with malware. In fact, I’m thinking of starting a pool to capture people’s guesses as to how long it takes someone who … Continue reading
I’m glad I’m running IE9
I’ve installed all three of the latest browsers and will try them side-by-side for a while. Of course, the first thing one notices is that only IE9 has the Tracking Protection List feature. I’m working on a blog post on that … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Privacy, Security
Tagged Chrome, Firefox, IE9, Phishing, Tracking Protection List
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Sadly, data breaches are all too common
After blogging about BP’s lost laptop this morning I was checking my mail and discovered a note from one of my financial institutions about a breach at bulk email sender Epsilon that impacts me. Three of the largest credit card issuers … Continue reading
Posted in Computer and Internet, Privacy, Security
Tagged Data Breach, Epsilon, Phishing, SPAM
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