The Art Of NohThe changing face of computer security.LinkedIn 419 scam- October 22, 2007 Bad guys using LinkedIn for what it seems like a 419 scam: Simpson Millars CONSULT AND CHAMBER, LIVEPOOL UNITED KINGDOM Tel: xxxx Email: xxxx How are you i trust you are having a nice day. I am mailing you in reference of investment in your country through you. I am delighted to let you know that, am a consultant and associate of Simpson Millars CONSULT AND CHAMBER, UNITED KINGDOM. I have a client (Kurt Kahle) based here in the UK, who died in the year 2000 with all the members of the Family.http://www.noh.ro/blog/archives/2007/10/linkedin_419_sc.html Audio stock spam- October 18, 2007 Today I've seen a couple of reports from various people that the Storm gang has changed once again tactics and started sending out MP3 files with pump and dump stock hints. Here's one such example received by my girlfriend on her Yahoo e-mail account. The stock they are spamming, as far as I can make it from the bad quality MP3 is: http:finance.google.comfinanceq=exto So far it seems that the method is not as good as the old fashioned plain text stock spam but I'll keep an eye on it to..http://www.noh.ro/blog/archives/2007/10/audio_stock_spa.html Restarting in 5- October 12, 2007 Earlier today I launched a wget to fetch FC7 from www.linuxusers.ro. While I was doing other things, I saw the following window appearing on my laptop: I wonder if Windows figured out I was downloading Fedora and decided to do something about it. ;) Anyways, it strikes me as a really bad thing to reboot an user's machine without asking first. Bad, Microsoft, very bad.http://www.noh.ro/blog/archives/2007/10/restarting_in_5.html Some photos from VB 2007- October 8, 2007 http:picasaweb.google.comcostin.raiuVirusBulletinConference2007http://www.noh.ro/blog/archives/2007/10/some_photos_fro.html |