Archive for August, 2008

Alert: MobileMe phishing scam

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Beware of any email you receive that claims to be MobileMe (Me.com) with a billing issue for your account. With the wave of new iPhone users and Mac coverts, Mac users are becoming a larger target for the “black hats” out there. If you do receive such an email, remember that the safest option, rather [...]

Alert: “CNN Daily” spam

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Here’s a great article explaining what’s behind the “Daily Top 10″ spams going around. The basic bits of the article are that if you click on anything, it will try to load a fake Flash player. It is Windows-only, but will invade and “phone home” to install more malware from the originating server. Massive faux-CNN [...]