News Photography

Aminus3

I read in PhotoPraxis about a cool site called Aminu3.com. This is a photoblog. You are allowed to upload there an unlimited number of pictures ! You get your own website: http://sorinmustaca.aminus3.com

Spam & Phishing

Stock spam reloaded: XLS format this time

Remember the stock spams send in PDF format ? You thought they are new ? Think again ! Now it is time for Excel format ! The mails come in a ~24Kb XLS file called “detailed invoice.xls”, “stock information.xls”, “investor_news2323.xls” and probably many others. See the picture below for a screen shot. What is interesting […]

General

Minimo – browser for PDA (WM 2005)

I just installed and tested Minimo. Minimo is “a small, simple, powerful, innovative, web browser for mobile devices”, created by Mozilla.org. Minimo uses Mozilla Technologies to produce a highly usable web browser for advanced mobile devices. Features include: * Fast access to your mobile content via Homebase start page * Best support for modern web […]

News Spam & Phishing

Spam description with my name in it

John Graham Cumming is maintaining his Spammer’s Compendium and he is giving names to spam techniques. I reported some time ago one technique used in PayPal phishing emails and he created a method: Cross your fingers and click (UH!Mustaca!HTML) What: Making what looks like a valid link to PayPal turn into a link to a […]

Antivirus Spam & Phishing

New type of Stock Spam : PDF Stock Spam

Last evening I analyzed a new type of spam, together with Oliver Auerbach. It has been published immediately on the avira.com website, thanks to Oliver. Source: http://www.avira.com/en/security_news/new_type_of_stock_spam.html Content: Tettnang, Wed, 20 June 2007 – Avira warns about a new type of spam which is currently sent to users within Germany. The spam claims to be […]