Category: scam

Old phish becomes new again

Paul

According to some reports, this phishing has started up again and is now changed a little web address and when you go to the site it looks like:

Twitter Phish spam

[ad#ad2-right]If you sign into this website with your twitter account information, it sends out a Direct message with these links in them rosalierebyb.blogspot.com redirects to http://twittyblog.access-logins.com/login and the only way you can fix this is to CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD.

I’d also suggest getting a password manager so if you use just one password for all accounts you will easily be able to change them and make the passwords much harder to hack. You do not want your passwords stolen do yo? I suggest Roboform it works really well with password management.

New Twitter Phishing -jannawalitax.blogspot.com

Paul

I read Chris Prillo’s Blog about this and wanted to investigate this even more. When you go to this site it looks like:

http://twitter.access-logins.com/login/ --Phishing site

When you go here the web address is : http://twitter.access-logins.com/login/ and it looks like it was a redirect form the blogspot.com site.   so what I did an experiment and just took off /login/ on the address and this pops up:

Face book fake -- http://twitter.access-logins.com/
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This website looks to like a facebook website so now you have to ask where is this at: Hunan China.  After I did a whois look up it looks like China is at it again.  These are trying to get on to your account to either spam or use it to get people to install software.   So what are things you can do?  If you have a question about this always check it out.  That is why I like to check everything out with these types of phishing scams.   I don’t know why they want twitter accounts, I just know they are doing this now.   So if you get this message:

hey! check out this funny blog about you… jannawalitax . blogspot . com

Just ignore it and possibly blog the twitter account.  That is probably a bot or someone’s account been hacked and is no longer valid.   I’ll leave that up to you on how you handle that account.   This is to warn people about this account and warn people. Help Protect your password with Roboform, don’t just use one password for all accounts.  It also seems to be possible worm, if you think your infected check out my resource on remove the worm.  Here’s the link to that talks about this being a worm.

Are you worried about your identity?

Paul

So after the fiasco of the other day, I decided I will talk about security and why you should worry about new websites that you have never heard of.   People are not worrying about there identity and keeping there identity safe.   You see whenever someone signs up to a service without thinking about their password being stored or even used maliciously.   You see when most people don’t use more than one or two passwords for all there accounts and then you use the same password with a new website.  Are you asking for your identity to be stolen?  In one of my previous blog posts I talked about not having any privacy on the internet.

So How can you protect your privacy?

When ever I come across a site that I don’t know about and I want to protect my account from being compromised I find out what I can from several places:

  1. [ad#ad2-right]Google — Yes this is quite common to use to find out about what people are saying asking the keywords like is it a scam or what people are saying about the site?  This can be very useful to make sure I don’t get scammed by a company for instants the Nationwide marketing scam.  Although this is really important when you get things that sound questionable.  This can be very useful with regards to keep your wallet safe.

  2. Whois Network — If there is a site you’ve not heard about and have a question about it you can always do a whois lookup.   This is a great resource for finding out how long the site has been up and who owns it?  The problem with this is most people who have a website aren’t worried about security and privacy.   So you make sure this site isn’t a phish site or to make sure the site isn’t being used improperly.

  3. Sitetiki —  a good site to do some research.   It’s a wiki like Wikipedia but for websites and if they are good or bad.  It also has a spammer list for people to watch and make sure not to go to.  These sites are usually redirect spam sites uses for email.

What about Personal privacy?

With this I also want to talk about security online to prevent people from gaining access to your accounts online by guessing the password.  Some sites also like to phish for your account information and use the information gained to take control over your account so here are some useful links to help protect your account information:

  • [ad#cricket-right-ez]Roboform — This is good for generating a really good random password and remembering it.  This will keep people from guessing the password and also make it easy to come up with another good password.  This will also fill out the required site forms that usually use to sign into website.

  • A good VPN Service —  If your like me and you have to use free wifi from time to time and want to make sure you have privacy on the net.  This is good for security on any open wifi network and you don’t want to have anyone watch you while your browse online.  In case someone is interested what VPN’s are used for here is the link to let people understand it better.

  • Perfect Paper Passwords — This is coming from Security now Episode 115 and he talks about this to better help people make the best possible passwords.  Listen to it and it will help you understand more about security.

These are just a few ways to prevent people from gaining access to an account.   After doing some research on this and thinking about this in bigger detail.   I would like to make a public apologies about the fiasco yesterday and what happened.  In all truthfulness everything didn’t seem right with the doings of the going on with website.   I also was worried about the twitter spam it was sending out as you started the service.   I didn’t know until later that it was a real person trying to make a product twitter users could really use.   I have learned from my experience and I will work harder next time and not be so quick to act next time.   If I was the company that bought that site, I’d also offer a job to both of them for being intuitiveness on coming up with a really good product.

The Next big Wave of Layoffs is Sony. (9,000 workers)

Paul

In a report from Engadget, there seems to be more Layoffs going on.   One such one is Sony.  Here is what Engadget said:

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The bad news from the Japanese consumer electronics industry continues. Sony just announced plans to cut about 8,000 global jobs from its beleaguered electronics business while making unspecified reductions to its seasonal and temporary workforce. The move, as Sony explains it, comes “in response to the sudden and rapid changes in the global economic environment.” Ominously, it looks like Sony will also be raising prices in the countries where “Sony makes significant sales” (read: US and Europe) if we’re reading this statement correctly:

[Via Engadget]

[ad#ad2-left]In Today’s economy, you need to be prepared.  So I thought I bring back some old Favorites of mine and talk about them.  To see the other layoffs that I’ve talked about CLICK HERE.   If you wanted to know what you can do to be prepared here are some great resources for people who are worried about there jobs:

If you have any others you would like to suggest please leave a comment and let everyone know.   These are hard economic times and we all could use the help.