I am wonder on what basis my mail client blocks the spam or phishing mails. I am receving lot of scam mails these days. The latest one being a lotter scam, it claims that i have won a some of “350,000.GBP“. Converting it to INR it goes to 2,83,09,657 Wow!!! that was huge [...]
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Lottery Scam
Posted in Security, tagged Scam, Security on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ericsson Hoax :: an eRumor around Internet
Posted in Hoax, Security, Technology, tagged Hoax, Security, Technology on September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here i came across , one more hoax mail. This particular mail claims that Ericsson company is going to give away free laptops to make nokia. This mail is truly a fiction. There is no Ericsson laptop giveaway. Ericsson does not have T18 or R320 laptops. Most of you should remember that ericsson [...]
Gmail against Phishing
Posted in Google, Phishing, Security, Technology, tagged Google, Phishing, Security, Technology on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today it happened again, ya i received one more phishing mail. Its targetted on Citizens Bank Customers.
Using gmail is a good for may things. Gmail was able to instruct you whether its a phishing mail. Below the headers, gmail have a alert message which warns you about phishing. Infact it did not have very technical [...]
Hoax Mail
Posted in Hoax, Security, tagged Hoax, Mail, Security on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Forwarded Mail / Chain Mails are becoming the worst thing i come across in my life. Every day i receive 5 – 10 Mails of this Kind. Below is a sample of this, and i can see how educated people working in Top MNC’s getting fooled by this kind of mails. If you could read [...]
Last week paypal users now its Moneybookers
Posted in Phishing, Security, tagged Moneybookers, Paypal, Phishing, Security on August 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Once again just in 4-5 days time, i got another Phishing mail targeted on Moneybookers Users. What make the different between this phishing mail and mail which i received earlier last week, nothing. Both these mails have similar kind of contect. Pointed to some URL which is again similar. Same way i found many similarities [...]
a PHISHING mail – targeted on Paypal Users
Posted in Phishing, Security, tagged Phishing, Security, Technology on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today, i recevied the below mail to my Gmail ID. Its a phising mail. Its targeted on Paypal Users. Usually GMAIL will display a alert for this kind of phishing mail. Unfortunately for this Mail, I did not see any alert. Even its delivered in my Inbox.
If you get this kind of fake mail you [...]
Web History
Posted in Google, Security, Technology, tagged History, Security, Technology, Web on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am a regular read of some Security Blogs / Sites. Around two three days back when i was going the lasts article in GNUCitizen, i got interested with one such article. Which was explaining about a issue on Google Web Search. The author claiming that the web history can be accessed as using the [...]
Fighting Spam with Bluefrog
Posted in Security, Technology, tagged Google, Programming, Technology, Yahoo on April 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to invite you to join the Blue Community and benefited from Blue Security’s free anti-spam service, the Do Not Intrude Registry. I highly recommend you join the service – it’s simple, safe and easy to use. Many users already report a significant reduction in spam.
Blue Security allows us to actively do something to [...]
Nessus 3.0: The End of the Age of Open-Source Innocence?
Posted in Security, Technology, tagged Security, Technology on January 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Nessus, maker of one of the most popular open-source vulnerability scanner programs available, changed its licensing agreement with the release of version 3.0.0 on December 12, causing a bit of a stir among security Free Trial: Eliminate IM compliance and security threats with policy and enforcement. industry players that rely on the code as a [...]
MySql Error – PHP
Posted in PHP, Programming, Security, tagged Mysql, PHP, Programming, Script on August 9, 2005 | 2 Comments »
$Result = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error());
This is the most important code you’ll ever learn when you want to use a database. This will help you to find the error information easily and will stop the Execution of the Code. So the remining part of your code will not get executed. May be some inconvience will be [...]
