OurPicks have an interesting piece of code snippet on their forums. A simple JavaScript code that lets you edit any webpage, static or dynamic on the fly Let us try this: Step # 1: Go to any website. Let us go to Slashdot.org Step # 2: Delete everything in the address bar Step # 3: […]
Continue ReadingMonth: January 2007
Slot Machine suffers from the Blue Screen of Death
The supposedly indestructuctible slot machines, turns out are prone to failure like any other machine. The inquirer reports this Blue Screen of Death on a slot machine at the International Casino Exhibition in Earl’s court, London. The machine was built by Italian Motherboard maker Zest, demonstrating its latest “high-reliability” computer designs. The machine was built […]
Continue ReadingAnalysis of Spam Thru botnet
Mark Sunner, Chief Security Analyst at MessageLabs was among the many security analysts watching one Trojan called “Spam Thru”, a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer, at the turn of last year. Spam Thru represented an expontential jump in the level of sophistication and complexity of these botnets, harnessing a 70,000 […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Scammer moves to London, England
The most visible form of fee fraud today is the Nigerian Letter or 419 fraud. A typical letter claims to come from a person needing to transfer large sums of money out of the country or from a lottery company. As the Nigerian letter has become well known to potential targets, the gangs operating the […]
Continue ReadingSpammers now using TinyURL to flood comments
Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages. While the most widely recognized form of spam is email spam, spam in blogs is becomming huge these days along with search engine spam and mobile phone messaging spam. Spamming is economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management […]
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