The lesson learned from this blog post is to never send any information about your identity without first checking the identity of the company/person requesting the information. I got this email in my inbox earlier today and someone with my ID card, a copy of one of my utility bills and a copy of my [...] Continue Reading
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Today I notice a weird message in one of our discussion forums. It's a spam bot hosted by Keyweb AG in Germany trying to figure out if the discussion forum is moderated or not. The good thing is that this forum where the spam was posted in is actually moderated, so the spammers wont have [...] Continue Reading
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As a follow up on yesterdays post about Akismet and how it's not stopping spam as effective as it used to I've counted the spam comments we've received in 3 of our blogs since the 10th of October 2008. On the graph you can see 3 major "incidents" where the comment spam skyrocketed into the [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging, Statistics
Most of you already know about the WordPress plugin Akismet and you may also laready use it to stop spam in your WordPress blog. But recently we've discovered that the plugin is not working as good as it used to. When we started using the plugin it stopped 100% of all spam we got in [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging
Have you recently noticed an increase in spam linking to docs.google.com? If so there's a reason for it. More and more spammers have figured out how to abuse Googles fantastic services to redirect visitors to other sites (the spammers own sites) Most free web services like for example Hotmail, TinyURL, Yahoo Mail and many more [...] Continue Reading
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I hope you didn't enjoy your spam free inbox too much since the spammers are back after the shutdown of McColo in San Jose on the 11th of November. When McColo was shut down by companies like Google and McAfee the spam flood decreased by about 70-75% over just a few days. Also the number [...] Continue Reading
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Have you tried to access Digital Points forum today or yesterday, then you've most likely noticed a series of database errors and network time outs . From what it looks the errors may have some connection to the spamming in the Introduction part of the forums. The messages in the spam posts are clear: I [...] Continue Reading
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A few days ago McColo Corp in San Jose (Californa) was disconnected from the Internet. According to some sources McColo Corp has been responsible for as much as 75% of the spam in the world!!!!! Hurricane Electric and Global Crossing cut off the Internet line sometime on Monday or Tuesday and already on Wednesday a [...] Continue Reading
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We have anew blog spammer online and this one is most likely trying to figure out if your blog got a spam protection of not. Most comment spam in blogs got at least one link to the spammers web site (in some cases they try to post up to a thousand links ), but this [...] Continue Reading
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Once again we're seeing fake emails trying to steal your login information. This time it's PayPal that's the victim of this scam. The email sent out is really good looking and the links in the email looks like they're going to take you to www.paypal.com/us/ but instead you're redirected to a fake PayPal site. In [...] Continue Reading
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There's a new kind of scam going on here in Sweden, but I think it's worth mentioning to all of you since this may happen anywhere in the world. If you get a phonecall with only one tune so you don't have enough time to answer, then it might be this scam. Don't call back [...] Continue Reading
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