Project Honey Pot – Help Make The Internet A Better Place

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If ...

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IRS Stimulus Package Phishing Scam

Friday, February 6th, 2009

US-CERT is aware of public reports indicating that phishing scams are circulating via fraudulent U.S. Internal Revenue Service emails offering users stimulus package payments. These emails include text that attempts to convince users to follow a link to a website or to complete an attached document. The website and document ...

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phpBB Downtime and Server Compromise

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

As you may already be aware from the message on phpBB.com or the topic in the #phpBB channel on Freenode, we have recently been attacked via a vulnerability in an outdated PHPList installation. The initial attack was performed well before a new version of the software was released or a ...

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VirusTotal Uploader

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

VirusTotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus engines. Specs: Free, independent service Use of multiple antivirus engines Real-time automatic updates of virus signatures Detailed results from each antivirus engine Real time global statistics You can also email your file ...

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Google Calendar Phishing returns

Monday, December 29th, 2008

In his blog, Graham Cluley of Sophos alerts his readers to the return of Google Calendar phishing attacks. Originally spotted in the summer, Google Calendar phishing uses event invitations to Calendar users asking them to "Verify Your Account" or face account deletion. Victims of this phish are asked to accept ...

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