Aug
19
2008
Image source: www.blog.webreakstuff.com
This is an alarming news, everyone. We all know about Youtube, right? Well, it’s dangerous as MySpace, FaceBook, or any online community now. Given that Youtube also allows “pg 13” stuffs, but that’s not the danger we’re talking about. That’s right. Some of the pages in Youtube have links that opens malicious machines into your computer. These machines have the ability to save your computer’s keystrokes, copies data, or even control your computer for another hacking scheme. Some people can separate the real and the fraud just by looking in the URL in the status bar, but it is much safer if you just search it in youtube itself. You know why? Some hackers make their preys open these links by making them their friends first. They just did this just because this is the time of election in the US, and youtube-users provide videos about the election, or their insight.
Feb
29
2008
According to Websense, there are a lot of reasons for spammers to favor using GMail:
“…that from the spammers’ perspective, there are four main advantages to this approach. First, signing up for an account with Google allows access to its wide portfolio of services. Second, Google’s domains are unlikely to be blacklisted. Third, they are free to sign up. And fourth, it may be hard to keep track of them as millions of users worldwide are using various Google services on a regular basis.”
There are actions made by GMail to fix this problem as they come up with different methods in preventing such scam. GMail has invited certain users to have their closed beta test to intensify their security system
Feb
27
2008
Yuki Shiina was arrested after allegedly sending 9 spam messages with forged sender information on November 13, 2007. The suspect, according to the investigations, bought 600,000 e-mail addresses for 100,000 yen and sent spam messages from his home PC.
He earned 2 million yen (more than 18,000 US dollars) from advertisers and sent around 2.2 million messages. The Internet service provider tipped last September to the police that they recorded that he was sending a massive amount of e-mails.
In Japan, a law was passed in 2002, and subsequently amended in 2007 where it prohibits sending spam messages with false or forged sender identification.