As seen in an article on PC World’s website, an information stealing trojan has been using the Monster.com job hunting service to steal contact information and other personal information from the site which it then uses to send Monster.com users a phishing like email. The email attempts to trick users into clicking on an infected [...]
For the past number of years, TiVo has been all the rage because of it’s ability to record/pause/fast forward and rewind live TV. TiVo is great for the everyday TV fan, but what do you do when you watch an excessive amount of TV and have an odd obsession with recording all of it, including [...]
For the final night of Phish Week, I figured it would be good to sum things up by talking about some of the resources available to protect yourself from Phishing Attacks. I discussed a few methods last night, mainly ways that you can manually keep on a look out for phishing scams. So, what are a few [...]
A few months back another friend of mine was attempting to sell a cell phone on EBay. Being fairly new to the entire EBay “thing”, he wasn’t really too sure of some of the precautions you should take before you begin a final transaction with either a seller or a buyer. In his case, everything [...]
According to an article today on Ars Technica, well known peer-to-peer company LimeWire L.L.C. has plans to open a new LEGAL music downloading website. While the music will obviously not be free to download, it will come in everyone’s favorite format, DRM-Free MP3. While this may still be a turn off to those seeking to get their music for free, it is [...]
The story behind this took place just over a year ago and involved a friend of mine (we’ll call him “Bob”) and a girl that was interested in him, a little too interested in fact (we’ll call her “Jane”). The back story here goes something like this:
Bob had met Jane at a local club and [...]
Welcome back to Phish Week. If you were with us yesterday, we went over the basics of Phishing, generally what phishing is. If you’re just joining us, click HERE to checkout yesterdays post and get all caught up.
Today we will take a look at some of the more popular phishing targets out there. As I [...]
This has been around for a little while now, but I figured I’d throw a post in here about it, for any of you that haven’t heard about it. For some reason it doesn’t get as much publicity as pay sites such as Napster or Itunes but the website www.ruckus.com offers free music for any [...]
That’s right folks, its Phish Week here on MyBSOD.com. Throughout this week, I will be posting articles on the topic of Phishing. I hope to give you, the reader, an in depth look at the world of phishing, what it is, how it occurs, who is at risk and how to protect yourselves. The best [...]
If you have an old PDA laying around at home, this post is just for you. I’ve found myself trying to come up with some creative idea’s over the past couple of weeks as to what to use my old Audiovox Maestro PocketPC for. In the process, here are the top 10 idea’s that I’ve [...]
