Continue Reading Add comment December 12th, 2008
Every year at the holidays we see an upsurge of ‘postcard ware’ based malware. They look like a e-card from a loved one so you are enticed to open them up and while some do display a pretty picture or a play a nice tune in the background they are infecting your pc.
Continue Reading Add comment December 8th, 2008
Well it was a nice but brief vacation from three of the big Botnets as McColo was shut down last month but by all reports the Mega-D botnet looks to be back and at near full strength.
Continue Reading Add comment December 1st, 2008
Over at IT Business they are reporting that Internet Relay Chat or IRC is again a popular place for Cyber Criminals to hang out and market their ill-gotten gains. With a market estimated at 7 Billion dollars you can be sure that they aren’t going away anytime soon.
Continue Reading Add comment November 28th, 2008
Some sites that you go to want you to register and provide a valid e-mail address to send you your password or a signup verification link.
Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008
Has it come to this? Do we need an anti-spam engine so powerful that it becomes self aware?
Continue Reading Add comment October 16th, 2008
The US Federal Trade Commission along with their counterparts in New Zealand and Australia have finally made a dent in the spam volume. As reported by the The Register and IT Brief, a two month investigation involving international cooperation has resulted in the laying of charges against Shane Atkinson …
Add comment July 31st, 2008
With so many people cutting back on travel because of the high fuel prices the chance of getting a ‘free’ airline ticket anywhere will surely entice some percentage of people to open this attachment and get infected. If it sounds too good to be true… you know the saying.
CudaMail is currently blocking these as Trojan.Zbot variation.
- Shaun
US-CERT Current Activity
Airline E-ticket Email Attack
Original release date: July 31, 2008 at 9:15 am Last revised: July 31, 2008 at 9:15 am
US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that a new email attack is circulating. This attack uses email messages that appear to be from legitimate airlines and contain information about a bogus e-ticket.
These email messages instruct the user to open the attachment to obtain the e-ticket. If a user opens this attachment, a file may be executed to infect the user’s system with malicious code.
Reports, including a posting by Sophos, indicate that these messages have the following characteristics. Please note that these attributes may change at any time.
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to take the following preventative measures to help mitigate the security risks:
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Continue Reading Add comment July 2nd, 2008
While McAfee is supposed to release the full report today one mother of three named Tracey Mooney has already talked to Network World and given her version of the experience of being deliberately naive on the Internet for a month. The outcome?
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Shaun Sturby is our Technical Services Manager, and Optrics' point person for email security, and network security. |
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Shaun Sturby, MCSE |
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The Spam Cryer
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