Tuesday, December 28, 2010

New Spam Email recived today

Emailed from  jamilah.norchamber@hotmail.my

Ashirin Jamilah & Nor (K.Sel)
No. 9A, Jalan Melati 3/21,
Bandar Melawati.
45000 Kuala Lumpur
Selangor
Tel:+60163722712

Dear Sean,

I am Ashirin Jamilah,an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine, by name Mr
Adams Mancini,who was here and after shall be referred as my client,he died with his
family
in gulf air flight crashes in Persian gulf near Bahrain aired.aired august 23,
2000-2:50 p.m.
 I have contact you to assist in distributing the money left behind by my
client before it will confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank when
this
deposit valued at $15.5million dollars is lodged.This bank has issued me a
notice to contact the next of kin, or the fund will be transferred into the
federal government reserve.
 My proposition to you is to seek your consent to present you as the next-of-kin
and beneficiary of my late client,so that the proceeds of this account can be
paid to you.Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon
percentage.All legal documents to back up your claim as my client's next-of-kin
will be provided.All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see the
transaction through.
 This will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
any breach of law If this business proposition offends your moral values,do
accept my apology.I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the
utmost indulgence to keep this matter extraordinary confidential,
Please contact me at once to indicate your interest.This transaction will be
treated private with absolute confidentiality and sincerity.

Best Regards,
Barr :Ms Ashirin Jamilah

Friday, December 10, 2010

ddos attack on amazon seems imanent

Network security news from networksecurity.tk

be advised everyone the team supporting wikileaks has said on thier twitter account they are voting to take down a companies website that was apart of  the wikileaks.org take down 

New African Scam Email Recived

Today i recived a new scam email from a "dr" say he would like to transfer money from a bank in africa  that has been unclaimed  to a sum of  $12,000,000  this is a common scam going around where the scammer steal your idenity by luring you to give up certain info like account numbers etc


I have posted the body of the mail below


Good day,

I am Dr. Johnson Okechuku the Branch Manager of Agricultural Development Bank (A.D.B) Achimota Branch in the Greater Accra Region of Republic of Ghana .

I am writing you following a deal in my bank that will be of an immense benefit to both of us but if you are not willing to get involved in the Deal, do not REPLY THIS E-MAIL, as you will never hear from me again.

I have contacted you to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $12,000,000.00 (Twelve million United States dollars) which have been abandoned for 7 years now in our bank without claim. The said fund was deposited by a foreign customer of our bank who unfortunately lost his life and that of his entire family in the 25th December, 2003 Chartered UTA Guinea - Boeing 727-223 air crash in Cotonou-Republic of Benin.

Since this incident occurred, our bank has waited for any of his relatives to come up for the claim but until date no body has done that and this compelled me as the branch manager to place the funds in a escrow coded/suspense account without a beneficiary until I can get a reliable, honest and a trust worthy person who will stand as the beneficiary and receive the funds into his/her bank account.

My decision to execute this deal is because according to my bank's policy which is in line with constitution of Republic of Ghana if an estate remains unclaimed after 7 years such estate will be confiscated by the Government and coupled with the fact that with all necessary legal documents the funds will be paid to any person who is presented as the beneficiary to our management team without any problem.

As a staff of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money as the beneficiary thus I contacted you to solicit your assistance to stand as the beneficiary and receive the funds into your bank account because of the geographical nature of where you live; particularly due to the sensitivity of the deal and the confidentiality herein.

Be informed that the funds will be released and transferred to your bank account as the beneficiary under a legitimate arrangement that will protect us from any breach of the law; And for your full maximum cooperation and support that guaranteed the success of this deal, I am offering to give you 40% of the funds while 60% will be for me.

Importantly be informed that this is going to be a bank-to-bank transfer without any risk involved and you are free to come to Ghana for confirmation.

All we need to do to succeed in this deal is to obtain all necessary legal documents in your favor as the beneficiary from the respective ministries in Republic of Ghana which will back up this claim and ensure the release/transfer of the funds to any bank account you will provide.

If you are interested and willing to execute this deal with me, I will appreciate your timely response at johnsonokechuku@gmail.com 

another interest this is this the reply to email address is a gmail    address

but the from email id is officeinfoorji20@att.ne

when you search this email id in Google  you can see many people have fallen for this type of email 

be smart stay secure

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Sink hole Bots

Read this interesting pdf on how sinkhole works to kill ddos bots on the internet

let me know what you think

you will find the pdf here


Link from www.cert.org

Thursday, November 18, 2010

security tools you can use for free!!!!

Hey eveyone

Been a while since my last post if you are wondering i have transferd my blog from one site to blogger

the key to keeping your data safe is having a secure computer

here are some free tools you can use to scan your computer for viruses and secure it from hackers


Antivirus

Avast antivirus  located at www.avast.com is a very light and powerful antivirus program

Microsoft security essentials http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ free and light

Online antivirus scanners

NOD32 online scan http://www.eset.com/online-scanner
use this online scanner when your installed antivirus has failed


im working on my list more to come

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

new bank scam email recived











this is a classic scam here are the 4 signs this is a fake 

1.) spelling notice some of the spelling mistakes

2) any reputable back would never correspond with you via email for security issues you most definitely would be contacted by phone

3) look at the copyright  first mistake the corporate name  is TD Canada trust 

4) this is a alarming thing that even the most non- technical person can catch

if your right mouse click on the link in the email and click save link location this is where you truly will be directed to
http://www.vinners.pl/skin/frontend/tdcanadatrust.com/easyweb/xxxxxxxxxxxxx

important points
1.) this email did not end up in spam until i put it there
2.) when you clicked the link in internet explorer it did not advise this was a phishing website but Mozilla Firefox did !

this is just another reason why just having a antivirus/firewall updated browser is not always enough  !

be smart stay secure !!!

the dangers of chat rooms and children

as parents and adults its our responsibility to ensure we protect our children from threats of the world just like we would protect them from being chased by the school bully we should be doing the same for their online security

its is very easy for a child to gain access to a chat room and start chating  from that time your child
may be prone to internet predictors or other threats

ways to protect your child

1.) use parental control software to restrict what websites they can surf to
2.) keep your computer in a open area where you can see your child's activity
3.) there is software available that logs all chat activity which i will post in the software section of this page
4.) look for unusual  long internet activity  for example if your child usual use the internet for about 1 hour but all of a sudden now its 4 hours look into it as this may be an issue the reason is if your child is now talking to someone online they may be luring in your child to "meet up " or a "relationship"

and the end know your child know thier friends and  keep involved with thier activites

be smart stay secure !!

Protect your self from spammers

Hey everyone

One popular question is how do i protect my self from a spammer  getting a hold of my email address

for one posting your email address on a forum or a website is a bad idea unless you have to for example your business website

another suggestion is  to choose your email address wisely for example if your name is john it is a wise idea  not to chose something like john@hotmail.com  the reason for this is it protects you from one of the most popular spamming techniques a "dictionary spam attack "   the logic behind this attack is when the attacker or the spammer goes against a email server in this case the hotmail email server the hacker goes by a dictionary of names  so john being a popular name it would be one of the prime targets  for spamming  in this type of attack

when the spammer does not get a bounce back says hey this email address doesn't exist he or she now knows that this is a active email address

but if john were to select john.doe@hotmail.com he cuts the probability in half that this type of attack would effect him

be smart stay secure !

The misconceptions about network security for both home and business

everyday millions and millions of computers around the world are compromised and the users of these computers don’t even know from the big corporations to the home users  everyone is at risk and the scary part about it is that most of the users of the computers don’t even know !!!
the problem is  number one EDUCATION some people think just because they have an antivirus/firewall on their computer that they are in some sort of untouchable zone wrong !!!  millions of different types of malware is launched onto the internet a day and for security professionals to keep up is near impossible  security is a balance between education and common sense for instance  a common thing now is to get a spam message from a bank asking for information such as your account number now site back and think now why would a bank ask for  your account number ? 

live by this rule if a person were to call me and ask for this information would i give it to them without challenging them ? if not then why would you just give your information to a computer  without questioning it ?

be smart stay secure !