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Bugs & fixes: iPhone e-mail messages wont send

2008-02-22 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b4a6a0 in Network World on Security
 
Some iPhone users and iPod touch users may find that they occasionally can't send an e-mail message, even though they're receiving messages just fine. Here are three of the most common culprits
 
Tags: ipod touch users, messages, e-mail message, common culprits, iphone users, fine
 
 
 
 
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Carleton University phishing attack sends its population 10,000 messages linking to faked college site

2008-07-24 10:47:40 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
In a fit of deja vu, I woke up to hear that Carletong University in Ottawa experienced a phishing attack of tens of thousands of email messages sent to email accounts related to the university. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07/23/ot-carleton-080723.html?ref=rss Its not clear from the press release how the attackers got the email...
 
Tags: university, carletong university, email messages, email addresses, attack, june article, press release, email accounts, tens
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Messages on XBox Live Network

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2008-08-05 16:24:21 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...messages (most likely from compromised accounts) being fired around XBox Live using the lure of free Microsoft points as bait (gamers can use these points to buy games, amongst other things Consequently, if you happen to be sent something like this by one of your contacts then run away very quickly. In this case, the website was made to...
 
Tags: page, real xbox page, genuine login page, xbox live, phish messages, fresh set, free microsoft, accounts, simply change
 
 
 
 
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Marketing Bot Allows Insertion of Custom Facebook Feed Messages

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2008-08-11 13:26:48 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...messages inserted into your feed - and there's a good chance everyone on your Friends list will see it on their own feed when they login to Facebook This would happen because someone has made a Bot for Facebook that allows you to insert your own custom message / image / clickable link into your Facebook feed. I've no idea if this is against...
 
Tags: feed, facebook feed, facebook, bot, facebook news feed, facebook terms, bot owners, friend list, myspace-style spam campaigns
 
 
 
 
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Skype messages being monitored in China, group says

2008-10-02 00:00:00 by John Ribeiro in Network World on Security
 
Tom-Skype, a joint venture in China between eBay's Skype unit and Tom Online, has been known to operate a text filter on text chats, but a new report says that the data is stored insecurely and the text messages and records containing personal data can be easily accessed
 
Tags: personal data, data, tom online, joint venture, skype unit, text chats, text filter, china, text messages
 
 
 
 
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Militants send terror messages in India by 'wardriving'

2008-10-06 00:00:00 by Agam Shah in Network World on Security
 
Citizens need to be vigilant and patch poorly secured wireless networks, the Indian police said Monday after announcing the arrest of technology-savvy members of a militant group that exploited insecure wireless networks to send messages
 
Tags: insecure wireless networks, wireless networks, messages, indian police, patch poorly, vigilant, monday, militant, citizens
 
 
 
 
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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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Automated Spim on Microblogging Site Via MSN Messenger

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2008-08-07 21:12:09 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...messages to their page via MSN Messenger updates http: //5834****** doesn't actually resolve anywhere - however, a quick Ping to that address and we have an IP Click to Enlarge Type the IP address into the browser, and via some geolocational technology, you'll see a region specific version of the following dating website Click to...
 
Tags: msn messenger, msn, message, msn messenger account, twitter-style message, account, msn account, twitter-style pages, pages
 
 
 
 
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Homer Simpson and the Kimya Botnet

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2008-07-11 17:46:17 by Christopher Boyd in SpywareGuide Greynets Blog
...messages as most of your desktop fails, leaving you with an entirely blank screen Click to Enlarge (if you really must From this point onwards, the PC will likely need a reboot and will be sluggish until cleaned up, constantly throwing out error messages, crashing when attempting to open Windows Explorer etc Now, given that the...
 
Tags: simpsons, simpsons fan, simpsons fans, exclusive simpsons episode, infection, infection files, real error messages, error messages, infection activity