New article in Virus Bulletin: Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites
I did it again : I’ve written a new article for VB 🙂 Note that you need an account in order to read it. Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites
The Spammers’ Compendium moved to Virus Bulletin’s website
As of May 1st 2008, the Spammers’ Compendium found a new home. It has been moved from www.jgc.org/tsc to www.virusbtn.com/tsc I and Nick Fitzgerald will continue to look for new tricks and maintain this collection. John posted this info also on his blog here Anyone can submit new techniques by sending an email to tsc […]
New article in Virus Bulletin Magazine
I wrote a new article for Virus Bulletin Magazine called Delivering reliable protection against phishing websites (requires registration)
What’s wrong with Facebook ?
Is there something wrong going on with Facebook at the time I publish this post? The website behaves abnormally slow and I had to click 2-3 time on some buttons until the changes were applied. If somebody received from me 2 (or more) invitations to connect, sorry… it is from this strange effect. Initially I […]
No spam, please !
Have a look at this picture taken today. I live there and those are the post boxes of all the inhabitants of that building. My box is in the middle (see the notes). That sticker does the job 🙂 I never received a commercial … NEVER !!! Can you believe this ? My neighbor has […]
Why is it worth fighting against SPAM ?
I received a post from my friend John Graham-Cumming (www.jgc.org) where he announced that he retires from the antispam industry. I even asked him if this is a joke. No, it is not. John, I am sorry to see you leave, I wish you good luck in your future activity, whatever that might be. Now, […]
Why no antivirus for P2P programs ?
I received a nice email with a very good question from Mehdy Mohajery. It is not the first time I am asked the same question. This time I am documenting the answer I always give. Question: I saw you profile on linkedin.com just tonight , and I noticed that you are specialist in both p2p […]
Kartenhaus.de hacked – thousand of credit cards stolen
It happened in October… most probably. I received on October 4th 2007, a very long email from this company which sells concert tickets. I bought tickets for a Manowar concert in Munich. And paid with my credit card. I received the email below (in German) which announces me that their servers were hacked and they […]
Spammed by… GFI Software?
I received this email from a guy from GFI who contacted me on the email address published on the website. Interesting mode to make publicity. Practically, they want me to spread the word about their company. Cheap marketing, nothing to say. 🙂 Now, how can we differentiate between a spam and such a message ? […]