Bank of Ireland's online banking service has been targetted by a phishing attack. In common with many of the previous phishing attacks against Irish financial institutions the fraudsters fall down on the cultural issues by their misspelling of the month "April" (they used "Aprill") The phish site itself (http://www.365online.com.cg1-bin.com/BankofIreland/banking.html ) is quite … [Read more...] about 365online targetted by phishers
Archives for April 2006
ICT Expo 2006
The ICT Expo is on next Thursday and Friday in the RDS. I'll be there on the Friday for most of the day, as I am giving a talk in the afternoon on Open Source software in the enterprise. If you're going to be around during the day let me know :) … [Read more...] about ICT Expo 2006
WordPress Revisited
I just installed one of the nightly builds on a new blog and it all works perfectly. No issues with permalinks. No weirdness with templates (at least not with the ones I've tried so far). No strange things with posts. The new features that will be included in the upcoming release are not going to be groundbreaking, but they will improve some areas. I haven't been keeping up … [Read more...] about WordPress Revisited
Mapping Irish Linux Users
Ken has setup a Frappr group for Irish Linux users (aka ILUGers) Nice idea :) … [Read more...] about Mapping Irish Linux Users
Domain Traffic Testing Explained
Frank Michlick, in his most recent article, explains the concept of "traffic testing" domains: A list of domain names is registered for a period from 1-5 days and then deleted again if the amount of traffic (or income) has not reached a certain threshold. Some of the testers will display a ‘parked page’ with PPC advertising and some of them will just display an empty page … [Read more...] about Domain Traffic Testing Explained