Yahoo Email Shows Viral Behavior

Yahoo Email Virus

Last weekend I received an unusual email from my sister.

She had sent the message to 6 or 7 people, some of them family members.  The subject line was something unintelligible.

And the content was a sales pitch for certain male performance enhancing recreational pharmaceuticals.

Naturally, there was a link to a website that held the chemical answer to all of mankind’s ailments, or maybe just man’s ailments.

My immediate thought was, “You got hacked!”

Internet Explorer 8 Security Flaw Leaves Hotmail and Twitter Vulnerable

As if you needed another reason to move from Internet Explorer to Chrome or FireFox.

Apparently this new flaw is a variant of an older security hole that was noted as far back as December 2009.  It exploits the way browsers like Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox handles something called CSS cross-site scripting

Detect Phishing Emails With These Online Apps

Email Phishing

While cleaning out my phishing email address, I came across several emails that were apparently from the FBI.

While they all appear to be from the same user, a robertmueller at fbi.gov, one of these emails came from someone on the Villanova campus. Apparently the sender forgot to modify one of the fields in their bulk email spamming software.