Tag Archives: internet security

Website bombardment and crack of 2009

10 Feb 2010 – 3:50 pm

A now time for a seriously long-winded story my little kitties. It has it’s beginnings, middles, and endings. It’s about how I realized my decrepit WordPress install was not so secure.

This may or may not have anything to do with my website getting cracked into and it may or may not have been a precursor [...]

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Crappy (All) Consuming crack

09 Apr 2005 – 5:06 pm

Dang it! The All Consuming site has been hacked by someone. I was going to login to my account to get the full list of books that I’ve read and update it now I can’t. I haven’t place the javaScript for my books code on my weblog in awhile, but still I wanted to update [...]

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Computer zombies with a viral load in e-mails

25 Jun 2004 – 8:30 am

Well, I’m still getting zombiefied emails from France that have attachments with them. I guess it looks like that guy who emailed me last year got his computer hijacked recently. When he emailed me last year his email client must have saved me in his address book (A feature which can be turned off). Once [...]

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Rampant email viruses

17 Jun 2004 – 9:01 pm

There has been a strangely increasing amount of spam with virus attachments sent to my email. I’ve gotten more of these emails within the last few days than I’ve ever got before. 2 additional yesterday and 2 more just today. They didn’t effect or infect me.
This time attachments with file the names:

Manufacture.zlv
Alive_condom.com
Counter_strike.vbs
bateaqxiqy.jpeg
Message.zip

The last two were [...]

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What the…? Spoofing and phishing.

15 Jun 2004 – 4:40 pm

I got a few funny emails recently. Too funny for words and an obvious attempt at forging, spoofing and phishing! Here’s one:

Hello user of Eklectik.com e-mail server,
Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access.
For more information see the attached file.
Kind regards,
  The Eklectik.com team        http://www.eklectik.com
Ha! The Eklectik.com team?! Gee, what a minute, [...]

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Where in the world is…?

19 Feb 2004 – 6:41 pm

I was ordering some vitamins from Swanson’s Vitamins online today and while going through checkout it showed my normal shipping/billing information but with something I’ve never seen/noticed before. It had my phone number totally wrong! It was an area code I’ve never seen before, 956. It was ten numbers and in the box for my [...]

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Browser Hijacking sucks

24 Jan 2003 – 3:32 am

Imagine if you will, just browsing and researching away when all of a sudden a page on a site that you’ve visited before now has something added to it. No folks, I’m not talking about new content. I’m talking about your web browser now has a new toolbar!
Yep…
…yer browser’s been hijacked!
I was wondering, “Is this [...]

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Attack of the Amazon trolls

30 Nov 2002 – 7:34 pm

Strange. I wonder if my Amazon.com wishlist has been hacked? For some reason it was showing my birthday as October 8th! That’s stupid. Really stupid. Last time I looked it was correct. Good thing I checked back. I changed it back to December 23rd.

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