Posts Tagged ‘Work’
Awesome Phishing Spam
Posted by Erin | Filed under General
Below is the awesome phishing spam I got today, sent to my work email address. Apparently I was the only actual user account to get this email. The actual email addresses/domains have been redacted. However, just imagine if you had received this email in YOUR work inbox? The .exe payload was a virus.
From: "System" <redacted@redacted>
To: <redacted@redacted>
Subject: Attention - Mail system upgrade
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:47:54 +0530
Attention!
On October 30, 2009 server upgrade will take place. Due to this the system may be offline for approximately half an hour.
The changes will concern security, reliability and performance of mail service and the system as a whole.
For compatibility of your browsers and mail clients with upgraded server software you should run SSl certificates update procedure.
This procedure is quite simple. All you have to do is just to click the link provided, to save the patch file and then to run it from your computer location. That's all.
http://updates.redacted.com.secure.s-data1.net/mail/id=7254828-redacted@redacted.com-patch5370226.exe
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter and sorry for possible inconveniences.
System Administrator
Longing for a simpler time.
Posted by Erin | Filed under Uncategorized
Remember when all websites were just text and hyperlinks and maybe a few images? Now everybody has to have some crazy php-based content management system application (yeah, yeah, pot-kettle-black, I know). Working in the webhosting industry and specifically, in Security, has really made me long for those simpler times again. Sure, editing html is tedious and time-consuming, but its pretty rock-solid safe once its web-accessible. Nobody can exploit flaws in your plain html code to send spam, upload phishing sites, or kill other webservers.
