Checking throught my mail, got a DoorDharshan commercial (or was it a commercial) when we were kids. this will appeal to just indian
Check it out below, thanks Gurri for sending me the link….
July 2007
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Was wondering how many get spam as PDF attachments now, most companies anti-spam mechanisms wont detect it.
I get > 10 of them a day.
My earlier intution was to consider there might be a new exploit about. So I went searching for clues and came across Nick Kelly’s (McAfee) blog post from earlier today, but it turns out that scammers are turning to PDFs because sending spam as an image file makes it easier for spam filters to stop the unwanted mail.
It may sound a little wierd, but rightly described as Modern day Robin hoods in a article on newsday.com stealing online credit card information to may charity payments
Some fraudsters have become generous — with other people’s money, donating to charities with stolen credit cards to verify the numbers are valid before selling them, the security firm Symantec Corp. said Friday on its blog.
Unverified cards fetch up to $6 while verified cards can bring up to $18, said Javier Santoyo, a manager at Symantec. “Even the bad guys want to verify the other bad guys.”The verification method has become popular because the monitoring software at credit-card companies may not question donations to charities, according the Symantec blog. Santoyo said the schemers usually donate less than $10.
Last month alone, the Red Cross refunded 700 fraudulent credit-card transactions, Martin said. That figure doesn’t include the transactions the charity blocked because they appeared fraudulent.
Most wont go to court for a $10 transaction even if the e-thieves did it …. what you you think ?
Internet SecurityThe blogging phenomenon seems to be spreading like wildfire across the world. Around 10.4 blogs are created every second (on an average) according to findings from Technorati.
- Technorati is tracking about 900,000 blog posts created every day.
- That’s about 10.4 blog posts per second, on average.
- Median time from posting to inclusion in the Technorati index is under 5 minutes.
- Significant increases in posting volume are due to increased mainstream use of easy hosted tools as well as simple posting interfaces like post-from-IM and moblogging tools.
- Weekends tend to be slower posting days by about 5-10% of the weekly averages.
- During the day, posting tends to peak between the hours of 7 a.m. and noon Pacific time (10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Eastern time).
- Worldwide news events cause ripples through the blogosphere - not only in search volume, but also in posting volume. (more…)
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Internet SecurityIn the world of Social Networking sites springing up, found a good link of what sites popular in which part of the world
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