By the Shores of seafsee

Charlies Web forums

It has come to my attention that the forums here:
http://www.phpbb88.com/across50kc/
have been flagged as serving up malware (by Google) and are being blocked.

Due to the nature of free forums and free forum hosting, if one site engages in this behaviour, all sites in the domain(?) [http://www.phpbb88.com] will be affected. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Anyone interested can follow the discussions on their FaceBook page.
FaceBook Page

I've earned 28 Achievements so far...

My latest from SocialVibe are:

I just earned the SocialVibe Advocate achievement! http://bit.ly/9aAcNP I just earned the Sony VAIO Rocket Project Advocate achievement! http://bit.ly/axsdw0 I just earned the Pernod Ricard Advocate achievement! http://bit.ly/d51lB8 #socialvibe

I just earned the Engagement enthusiast achievement! http://bit.ly/dB982e SocialVibe is where you can earn free donations for a Cause you care about. It's easy and free! #socialvibe (via Twitter)

Twitter Deploys New Anti-Phishing Service | threatpost

The new Twiiter anti-phishing service, which launched Tuesday, essentially serves as a proxy between users and whatever sites the links are pointing them toward. When a user clicks on a shortened URL in a Twitter messages, he first will be routed through the new Twitter service, which will inspect the link and prevent the user from visiting the page if it looks malicious.

via threatpost.com

Also, tinyurl gives a preview option as shown in this tweet:

seafsee Dubai tower exporting 10 times more renewable energy than needed (preview) http://preview.tinyurl.com/yeqyomr / http://tinyurl.com/yeqyomr

If you click the preview link, tinyurl will show you what the real link is.

Diet Twitter Spam (on the) Run

Spam about diet or weight loss plans has been around for ages now, mostly spreading through email. However, it has recently made its rounds on Twitter, compromising unknowing accounts and spreading itself via those it has infected.

Compromised Twitter accounts post a tweet message that tells their followers to click on the shortened link to try out a new diet/weight loss plan:

via blog.trendmicro.com

Trillian Astra

Back in the Win '98 days, keeping the three main messenger clients (Yahoo, AIM, MSN) open at the same time would cause such a memory drain, getting any serious work done became next to impossible. A new website, called Cosmiverse.com began advertising for a new client called MECA (May Everyone Connect Always) which promised to be able to connect to these as well as either ICQ or IRC clients and I thought this might be a solution to my problem. The original Charlies Web site included this recommendation.

Today's new Trillian Astra, does much more.

Trillian Astra is here! Since 2000, Trillian has been a powerful part of the effort to bring interoperability to IM. We are proud to bring you our latest and fourth major version, Trillian Astra, our best yet! Chat on Windows Live™, Yahoo!®, MySpaceIM, AIM®, Google™, ICQ®, Jabber, Skype™, IRC, and manage your Email, Facebook, and Twitter™! ... available for Windows, iPhone and Web!

See the 450+ features (for Windows users*) here: http://www.trillian.im/learn/tour-features.html

Facebook users told to beware fresh wave of spam and phishing attacks - Times Online

Facebook users told to beware fresh wave of spam and phishing attacks - Times Online.

Matthew Prince, co-creator of Project Honey Pot and a professor of cyberlaw at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, said: "Spammers are trying to establish trust and they see Facebook as the way in."

Related: Social Networking Safety - Microsoft Protect.

As the popularity of these social sites grows, so do the risks of using them. Hackers, spammers, virus writers, identity thieves, and other criminals follow the traffic.

New version of Zeus targeting AIM users - SC Magazine US

A new iteration of the Zbot, a password-stealing trojan, is victimizing users of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), according to Webroot.

via www.scmagazineus.com

Related: Phishers Target AOL IM Users | Malware Blog | Trend Micro

blog.trendmicro.com

Trend Micro fraud analysts were recently alerted to the discovery of a new phishing campaign that specifically targets AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) users.

So, why now?

It seems I am behind in getting to all this social networking stuff.

Most of my previous online presence(s) have been lost - be it the demise of MSN Communities, Yahoo^TM Geocities and even Yahoo^TM 360^o.or forums like Twisted RCT and (who would have ever thought) CastleCops.

My first Web Page(s), hosted free through an app called Trellix (bundled with my camera) wound up in a subdomain called Pakistan - not necessarily friendly to a site with a World Trade Center memorial in it, and by the time I got to use the app wisely, it was bought and sold and replaced by another.

I've been pressured to get a MySpace and finally realized I did not think it was all it was cracked up to be. One of my daughters pages kept triggering virus alerts; another daughters machine became infected and some security sites were sending up red flags.

I stayed on top of security issues through CastleCops. Though I did not partake in any specialized cleaning of machines with them, I've yet to find a replacement for them. I suppose it's time .

So, I've spent time the past two days uploading photos to Twitpic and Facebook.

Click below to see previously unpublished photos from Ground Zero in an album called Never Forget.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2096&id=100000600585937&l=e696bdf9a3

So, why now?

There are many reasons - too many to really get into at this time, but part of the reason is no matter how far we come in time since that Tuesday eight years ago, it is always there and manifests itself in new strange ways. Events of the past day or so have me wondering what we, the public will be asked to do next. Will they now ban underwear when flying?

CNN wants to discuss problems with airport security. Meanwhile the guy once held responsible is still not in custody, while John Q, Public feels the net of the Patriot Act getting tighter all around him.

I was struck that at the 5th Anniversary, a schoolteacher (of all people) admitted they had forgotten about 9-11. I have to wonder how that is possible. Could it be because his neighborhood wasn't turned into a war zone like mine was? Was it because he didn't hear the explosion of jet into building, or smell the acrid fires burning or see the smoke rising in the air like I did?

It seems no matter how far we've come, there is still a ways to go, so Never Forget. Now I can share my memories with you and try to help you to remember. It must not happen again, but by penalizing normally, law-abiding U.S. citizens is NOT the way to prevent that.

Thank you, but I'd like to keep my Hanes on.