Yesterday New York Times columnist tweeted an astonishing comment, saying that his computer had been hacked and it’s IP address was being used to download child p*rn0graphy. He has since deleted the original tweet, but it had been captured enough times and circulated far and wide. I found it curious, to be tweeting that. However, […]
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How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email
A few days ago I came across the CBC story on how a Canadian man had been defrauded out of $800,000 when cybercriminals inserted themselves into a real estate deal and had the funds diverted to themselves:
WDRP, Whois Accuracy Program Notices now signed with our GPG Key
Some of you may have noticed that we are now signing WDRP (Whois Data Reminder Program), WAP (Whois Accuracy Program) and some renewal notices with our GPG key. This is phase one heading toward all system generated notices (login alerts, event notifications, renewal invoices, etc) being signed as well. We’ll be cleaning up any instances […]
New GTLDs are great for pump-and-dumps, phishes and more….
Yesterday, egregious financial truth-tellers (and easyDNS client) ZeroHedge broke the news that parties unknown engineered what looks to be a textbook “pump-and-dump” on Twitter’s stock by putting up a fake “Bloomberg Financial News” site on the domain bloomberg.market and proceeded to run a story on it about Twitter being acquired. The story spread and shares […]
Phishing attacks using SMS text messages
Be on your guard, the phishing attacks are coming from every vector nowadays. The other night I received this SMS on my cell phone at about 3:30am. Obviously a fake login site, in this case we can tell from looking at the domain name itself that it was registered for the explicit purpose of setting […]
