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.
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It runs in tubes: the first high-speed rail, circa 1870 - SmartPlanet

There’s plenty going on in terms of establishing more high-speed rail networks within the United States, and we see plenty of monorails at airports. Experimentation also continues with new technologies such as maglev trains that float to their destinations on magnetically charged runways. Of course, places such as Japan have had high-speed rail since the bullet trains began running in the 1960s.

via www.smartplanet.com

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

Charlies Web BOINC team Members

	User Name	Total credit	Credit /day	Credit /week	Credit /month	Options
1	seafsee	158,791	21	54	54
2	Marc	51,314	0	613	2,741
3	ally32_74	28,849	0	0	0
4	patermann	6,523	0	0	0
5	chasfc11	4,796	0	0	0

Click the graphs for detailed stats from boincstats.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

Haiti Spam Leads to New Malware | Malware Blog | Trend Micro

Haiti Spam Leads to New Malware | Malware Blog | Trend Micro.

This is a good reminder of how spammers will do anything to make their spammed messages appear legitimate. It is thus important to check for data consistency so as not to fall into their trap. In this case, if the video truly contains photos of the aftermath, then there is no need to download or execute an .EXE file. Users are thus advised to exercise caution when opening messages, particularly those that come from unknown senders.

Read more: http://blog.trendmicro.com/haiti-spam-leads-to-new-malware/#ixzz0duP3C6ew

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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.

Texas Bank Sues Customer Hit by $800,000 Cyber Heist

Texas Bank Sues Customer Hit by $800,000 Cyber Heist.

The bank’s memo states that on Nov. 8, secure access code e-mails were sent to a Hillary e-mail address, but that the request came from a computer with an Internet address in Italy. The memo further states that the actual wire transfer requests were made from computers with Internet addresses in Romania.

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.