While happily perusing Google malware alerts this morning, I managed to click on a poisoned URL. The Vista computer that I use for alerts/surfing/chatting/social networking is not my main PC, but is obviously one that I have no desire to infect! So as to not reinvent the wheel, I went to Norton Safeweb and got a [...]
Trademytweets[SCAM]com is a new variation of the old Tweeterfast, Tweeterfollow theme. Recent domains that have operated under the same gray umbrella are gettwitterfollowersforfree.com and SpreadMyTweets.com. Trademytweets claims: “How does it work? When you sign in with your Twitter details, our system will find you 20, 40, 60 or 100 other Tweeters. Then with these people [...]
I’ve been following the Tweeterfollow musical domain saga since late September 2009. The theme never changes. I’ve also written about their scam/phishing/twitter account hijackings here. Yesterday the Tweeterfollow (AKA: TF) domain push on Twitter was via Twtxtreme.info (currently disabled) using short url services tinyURL and retwt.me. Today it looks like TF is promoting twtkingz.info via [...]
Last month Brian Krebs wrote an interesting and informative article about E-Banking on a Locked Down (Non-Microsoft) PC for business owners, and outlined a tutorial on how to accomplish security online. “In past Live Online chats and blog posts, I’ve mentioned any [sic] easy way to temporarily convert a Windows PC into a Linux-based computer [...]
The butterfly effect: “Small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system.” In the realm of Internet security, webmasters (hosting service providers) are pivotal in reducing the impact of compromised/malware-laden websites. Once a compromised site becomes known to a webmaster (or hosting [...]
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