http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/150 Unix, Information Security & Systems Administration Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:09:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://lair.moria.org/blog/archives/150/comment-page-1#comment-777 mh Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:26:05 +0000 http://lair.moria.org/blog/?p=150#comment-777 Interestingly enough, this months fortune magazine (or forbes - i cant quite recall) has a regular columnist whining about being caught in exactly such a scam. His creds were then used to send in facebook spam [with a sim. message) to his >1000 friends.. He complained about FaceBook's lameness at not protecting him, and ended with their lameness at not warning their users of using the same creds they use on other sites like internet banking.. /mh ps: for the redaction a) the image is called domphishing - a casae insensitive search for dom on ur blog gives u a first hit winner b) a fb search for rhodes - gives u b irwin as hit 1, and a dom as hit 2 (ooh, same pic) c) if anyone in gauteng ever drove past a hair style like that, the image wld be burned in their mind forever and i submit it wld be more memorable than a name tag at a conf! Interestingly enough, this months fortune magazine (or forbes – i cant quite recall) has a regular columnist whining about being caught in exactly such a scam. His creds were then used to send in facebook spam [with a sim. message) to his >1000 friends..
He complained about FaceBook’s lameness at not protecting him, and ended with their lameness at not warning their users of using the same creds they use on other sites like internet banking..
/mh
ps: for the redaction
a) the image is called domphishing – a casae insensitive search for dom on ur blog gives u a first hit winner
b) a fb search for rhodes – gives u b irwin as hit 1, and a dom as hit 2 (ooh, same pic)
c) if anyone in gauteng ever drove past a hair style like that, the image wld be burned in their mind forever and i submit it wld be more memorable than a name tag at a conf!

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