Tired of getting phishing emails "from" Bank of Ireland? Not to fear - the phishers have moved onto a new target - Permanent TSB. As happens so often the email itself is grammatically incorrect: Dear Valued Customer, Financial institutions around the world have always been subject to attempts by criminals to try and defraud money from them and their customers. These attempts … [Read more...] about Permanent TSB Phished
Spam Filtering
Microsoft Ignores Europe….
Earlier this year I mentioned the Microsoft /MSN initiative to help ISPs track their users' spam. Since I last logged in they've added several new features including the possibility of adding your entire AS number. Excellent! No more worrying about network segments. I'd simply throw in any AS we manage and be covered! WRONG! MS, in their wisdom, haven't set up their system … [Read more...] about Microsoft Ignores Europe….
Google Aids Spammers …..
Dear Google Please stop making life easy for spammers... Thanks to your rather inane redirector spammers are able to send us all links to URIs that blacklists would otherwise block And you wonder why gmail is constantly blacklisted? … [Read more...] about Google Aids Spammers …..
AIB Phished Badly
When the phisher can't even get the path to the images right you really do have to wonder how successful they are going to be. Today's AIB phish contained the following: amongst other gems The actual text of the phish is clumsy: Because of unusual number of invalid login attempts on your account, we had to believe that, there might be some security problem/trespass on your … [Read more...] about AIB Phished Badly
Ooooh Wikipedia References me!
I went looking for some information this on DNSBLs this evening and ended up on Wikipedia. What do I find? A link to an article I wrote some time ago for ILUG … [Read more...] about Ooooh Wikipedia References me!