Strangely Perfect

A Cracking Week Off? I had a week’s holiday of sorts last week.  On returning I found that this website had been cracked. (I already had intimations that something was wrong because of site stat failures and an email from @Justin Asking, sometime commenter to this website and others).  Anyway, so it was.  Unfortunately, I [...]

Long Live Wikileaks! These images will take you to the current IP addresses of Wikileaks. It follows on from my earlier help to the organisation here when a bunch of Swiss bankers mysteriously managed to influence “independent” judicial decisions in America. The fact that I even have to do this is an abomination on the [...]

Long Live Wikileaks! These images will take you to the current IP addresses of Wikileaks.  It follows on from my earlier help to the organisation here when a bunch of Swiss bankers mysteriously managed to influence “independent”  judicial decisions in America. The fact that I even have to do this is an abomination on the [...]

Introduction Poacher turned Gamekeeper I’ve been rss following a little thread where a job-seeking homeworker has been diddled out of thousands – see Saundrak’s Blog. It seems to have close ties to Pacific Webworks et al, maybe not directly, but the Golf Course, techniques,  or something. Read this curious comment from someone called mlwood79 that [...]

Introduction So it’s time to move… It’s time to get down with it… It’s time to testify.. …and I want to know… ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY? Brothers and sisters… I give you.. A testimonial… The MC5! With a vague resemblance to my personal life and status, and a bit like “technology mirroring life”, this [...]

Introduction This is a small investigation into mail lists and scammy companies.  Some companies are fine, but I always go by the adage to judge a man by the company he keeps.  This shows how lists spread far beyond their initial purpose when you sign up for something.  It also shows how the privacy policies [...]

Pre-Script Comments are now closed on this posting as Google Treasure Chest is dead. However, the problem has not gone away – the menace continues. For further information, all chat on this and subsequent scams is now here: Google Revolution, Different Name, Same Scam! and here: More on Google Profits and Pacific Webworks/ Introduction This [...]

Google Adsense Calling Mork!   Google Adsense Calling Mork! Amazingly, following my comment about Google Adsense on my website in yesterday’s rant about Phorm, I got a message this early morning from the mother ship (Dalek voice – “Monetize! Monetize!”).  This is the text which millions of Morks across the globe will have got… Hello, We’re [...]

I’ve set up OpenDNS, http://www.opendns.com/ on my home router to give it a try. This is for a few reasons: To see what it’s like :roll: To block out phishing sites globally.  This is a test at giving myself an extra layer of security without hitting the PC or router performance. To block out gambling [...]

I decided to have a small investigation on (some!) of today’s spam…  I noticed a lot of similarities in my Mailwasher Pro output: Forged/spoofed “from” address “Debt free” or “get out of debt” or some permutation thereof in the subject field ALL have a non-obfuscated ~spaces.live.com web address as the link 2 line body: e.g. [...]

For the past few weeks I suppose everyone has had a bit of email spam with this in the “From” and “Subject”: msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: There then follows a sucker headline which is obviously pants.  They all have a spoofed link for http://breakingnews.msnbc.com which points to somewhere else, quite often a html document on the [...]

Introduction The dorty hakkaz have spotted something so Microsoft et al have had to roll out a fix.  Specifically, it’s a DNS hack that allows the bad guys to spoof code, pages and even complete websites!  Here are some bits of info today: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-037.mspx http://www.itpro.co.uk/604416/light-patch-tuesday-but-server-flaws-serious http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7496735.stm Problem The trouble is either the DNS fix or [...]

Daft innit. I think it’s great. It only appears to be in the install, which takes ages and is in the menus for a bit. The actual game doesn’t appear to have it although thematically the in-game music is similar. The chords are very like I Predict a Riot, but slower – big jumps with [...]