Monthly Archives: April 2013

The “White House Explosion” – Associated Press Blushes

The full story:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/23/hacked_ap_tweet_dow_decline/ But basically what happened here is that the Associated Press twitter account(s) had weak passwords, and the “hackers” found out what the passwords were and used that knowledge to post a fake announcement. We can blame … Continue reading

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It’s Not Really From Them!

One of the things we get asked about the most is spam (not SPAM!) where somebody has been sent some sort of junk email. Spammers are learning a trick from phishing attacks – not surprisingly as spammers send out email-based phishing attacks … Continue reading

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Thanks to those wonderful people at Sophos for the Threatsaurus…

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