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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...message while searching on Google, and wondered what the reason behind it might be. Instead of search results, Google displays the "We're sorry" message when we detect anomalous queries from your network. As a regular user, it is possible to answer a CAPTCHA - a reverse Turing test meant to establish that we are talking to a human user - and...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...message while searching on Google, and wondered what the reason behind it might be. Instead of search results, Google displays the "We're sorry" message when we detect anomalous queries from your network. As a regular user, it is possible to answer a CAPTCHA - a reverse Turing test meant to establish that we are talking to a human user - and...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Catch not-so-smart hackers to send message to smart hackers

2007-05-10 07:00:33 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...message to smart-deviant employee - [smart-deviant employee could either become smarter or they could just shut up!]. Typical examples of not-so-smart-deviant employee behaviour are: 1. Sending confidential document to a competitior through an email attachment. 2. FTP'ing confidential document outside of the company. 3. Using webmail to send...
 
Tags: not-so-smart hackers, hackers, not-so-smart, smart, smart hackers, employee, smart-deviant employee, hackers interact, smart hacker
 
 
 
 
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Lenovo service disables laptops with text message

2008-11-24 05:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Lenovo announced a service that allows users to remotely disable a PC by sending a text message
 
Tags: text message, remotely disable, service, lenovo, users
 
 
 
 
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Lenovo kills notebooks with a text message

2008-11-26 10:20:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
You lost your notebook? You are worried about the data that might be exposed. No problem: Kill the notebook with a text message
 
Tags: text message, notebook, data, kill, lost
 
 
 
 
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Lenovo will let you kill a notebook with a text message

2008-11-27 14:30:01 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Lenovo is working with Phoenix on a BIOS that will let you disable a ThinkPad notebook PC by sending it an SMS text message. The feature should be available early next year, reports TG Daily
 
Tags: sms text message, thinkpad notebook, lenovo, bios, phoenix, daily, feature, reports, disable
 
 
 
 
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Backdoor in G-Archiver

2008-03-11 14:02:11 by Chris Wysopal in Zero in a bit
 
...Message message = new MailMessage message.To.Add(JTerry79@gmail.com message.From = new MailAddress(JTerry79@gmail.com, JTerry, Encoding.UTF8 message.Subject = Account message.SubjectEncoding = Encoding.UTF8 message.Body = Username: + a message.Body = message.Body + rnPassword: + b message.BodyEncoding = Encoding.UTF8 message.IsBodyHtml =...
 
Tags: mailmessage message, message, backdoor, smtpclient client, client, gmail, gmail credentials, credentials, people
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#1-5)

2006-10-03 04:13:56 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...messages 5. From: and Reply To: address are different : This is a common feature of spam mails, but it is also very common with newsletters. The importance of this characteristic should be minimized since it is also found in legitimate emails 4. Message body contains remote image : In order to avoid spam messages from being blocked by word...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, top spam characteristics, spam characteristic, spam mails, avoid spam messages, html comment tags, comment tags, flag spam correctly
 
 
 
 
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The top 10 spam characteristics (#6-10)

2006-09-27 06:01:03 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...messages are hard to distinguish from legitimate emails, most spam mails include tell-tale signs that can be used to filter them out. In the next few days I will be discussing the Red Earth Software list of current top 10 spam characteristics and how they can be used to detect spam. Remember that these spam characteristics must not be used in...
 
Tags: spam, spam characteristics, spam characteristic, todays spam mails, mails, email address, complete email address, detect spam, spam messages include
 
 
 
 
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Messaging and Event Processing

2008-07-13 09:02:47 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog