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Information on Twitter Threat

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Following on from last month’s phishing attacks on Twitter via the mass distribution of spam messages, Symantec Security Response has now detected a wave of fake Twitter invitations that come carrying a mass-mailing and malicious worm.
The observed messages appear as if they have been sent from a Twitter account; however, unlike a legitimate [...]

DDoS Extortionist Hits Filipino Blogger

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Ryan Cleary alias “ViraL”, one of the three hackers who conspired to bring down 4chan with a DDoS attack, posted this threatening comment on my blog the other day.
ViraL on August 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Are you serious right now? Remove all material on us from your site or it won’t come back up. You [...]

SiteMeter crashes thousands of websites on IE7

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Over the weekend, thousands of websites inexplicably crashed when browsed via Internet Explorer 7. The common thing about them is that they all use Sitemeter and a bug in the site tracking service caused all the havoc.

BDO Email Scam Alert

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Banco de Oro sent out a security bulletin to all its customer about a recent internet scam being circulated in emails that is part of a bigger modus operandi.
The scam being circulated through email attempts to lure recipients into giving details of their account and other information so that this may be used as [...]

Tougher Penalties for Gadget Theft Passed by Senate

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The Philippine Senate has passed Senate Bill No. 1697, called “The Anti-Theft and Robbery of Portable Telecommunication Devices Act of 2007,” prescribing stiffer penalties for gadget theft.
According to the bill, “any person convicted of the crime of theft and robbery of a portable telecommunication device shall be punished by the penalty next higher in degree [...]

Sony’s Rootkit, reloaded

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Sony’s at it again.
As this report from Infoworld says:
“A line of USB drives sold by Sony installs files in a hidden folder that can be accessed and used by hackers, a Finnish security company charged Monday, raising the specter of a replay of the fiasco that hit Sony’s music arm two years ago when researchers [...]

Swindlers in Friendster Philippines

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

A few days back GMA Tv News Saksi reported on fraudsters operating in Friendster. My Apologies to the non-Filipino’s viewing this as the report is in Filipino.
Basically it went like this: It started by a user receiving friendly messages from a friend from abroad in her profile page which elevated to an [...]

Do Unlimited Text Schemes Make Scamming Easier?

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

The popularity today of unlimited texting schemes are making it easy and cheap for scammers to mass-send text messages to other users within their networks. For instance, for about PhP 50, you can get five days’ worth of unlimited texting, or so. How many messages do you think these scammers can send in that time? I think in a day, they can send hundreds, manually. What more if their phone or SIMs are connected to computers?

Are unlimited texting schemes a boon for scammers?

Does your bank mask your account number?

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

A couple of bloggers have revealed a security loophole in Xoom, which begs the question: does your bank mask the account numbers?

Send encrypted webmail

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Sending an unencrypted email through the internet is like sending a postcard. It exposes your message to the world. Freenigma aims to solve that.

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