Friday, November 14th, 2008
I received another email today supposedly from an FBI Director claiming that I am the beneficiary for a $10.5 million sum. Basically, it's the newer version of the old Nigeria scam. Here are the exact email contents, including the basic headers:
-----Original Message-----
From: Federal Bureau of Investigation [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 14, ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A new threat that comes under the guise of a genuine antivirus program has become increasingly prevalent over the past year. Offering to locate and remove malware from your PC, this rogue will actually install a Trojan on your unsuspecting system. The process is usually initiated when you click a ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox version 3.0.4 to close nine security holes. The developers rated four of the holes as critical because they allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim's system. One of the critical holes is a classical buffer overflow that can be triggered via specially ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Attackers have been using the recently announced vulnerability in Adobe Reader 8 to attack Windows users, warn security experts from ISC (Internet Storm Center). The attackers are exploiting the util.printf JavaScript function to trigger a buffer overload. A PDF containing the malicious code was recognised by over 30 virus scanners ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
The viewing of porn at work can result in lost time, creativity, productivity, and employer profitability. More importantly, it can help create a hostile work environment and can be considered sexual harassment, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Naturally, corporations want to avoid the ...
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