Saturday, March-11-2006
Warning regarding phishing scam from the PA Lottery web site.
PENNSYLVANIA LOTTERY WARNS PLAYERS TO BE WARY OF A SCAM USING LOTTERY LOGOS
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Recently, a number of consumers have received an e-mail titled "CONGRATULATION! CONGRATULATION!! CONGRATULATION!!!," which fraudulently uses Pennsylvania Lottery logos. These e-mails, as well as other similar e-mails touting a lottery prize, are a scam according to the Pennsylvania Lottery's Security Office.
The current fraud using the Pennsylvania Lottery name and logos is an attempt to access personal information, such as Social Security numbers or bank account information.
The Pennsylvania Lottery does not notify winners via e-mail or
Thursday, March-09-2006
We have "Legal Beagles" and "Legal Eagles" to which we can now add "Legal Bagles."
No not the kind that's rather tasty sliced and toasted (that's bagel) but a new variant of the Internet worm that just won't die. Or at least go away.
Round about last Friday (March 3, 2006) a new variant of the bagle worm was being captured by security labs and seen by potential victims that threatens legal action against the recipient.
Some of the common subject lines are:
Pay your debts before we come to you
Call to your lawer immidiately
Lawsuit against you
We wait your response
As usual the bad grammar
Sunday, March-05-2006
As reported by several European news sources in early February 2006 a gang of
Russian and Ukrainian hackers have been arrested for the alleged theft of over €1m
(1 million Euros - approximately 1.22 million USD) from French bank accounts.
The electronic thefts occurred by infecting the victims' computers with a key logging
program embedded in emails and malicious web sites. The key logging software
was particularly stealthy in that it remained essentially inactive until a victim
used their computer to contact their bank online. At that time it would record
login and password information and send that via the Internet to a site to be
retrieved by
