Phishers using smarter hooks

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Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of
Phishers

Internet Snagged In the Hooks Of
Phishers 07/29/2004 08:44 PM

Microsoft hooks up with anti-phishers

Microsoft hooks up with anti-phishers 07/22/2004 11:13 AM
Silicon.com Jul 22 2004 3:58PM GMT

Hooks of Books

Hooks of Books 08/29/2004 09:15 PM
A well-linked site to be sure - but I include myself a suckerfish for Opening Hooks, a site dedicated to presenting readers with the opening paragraphs or lines of textual fiction. I would have to struggle not to continue reading on past the cleverer of setups. I love invitations such as the following: The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" by C.S. Lewis “There was a boy call ...

QRS Jilts JDA, Hooks Up with Inovis

QRS Jilts JDA, Hooks Up with Inovis 09/03/2004 02:39 PM
The data integration software provider terminates its merger agreement with JDA Software Group in favor of an acquisition by Inovis International.

Telstra hooks up with Hutch for 3G

Telstra hooks up with Hutch for 3G 08/03/2004 10:03 PM
CNN Aug 4 2004 1:37AM GMT

I'd rather be strung up on meat hooks --
no, seriously.

I'd rather be strung up on meat hooks --
no, seriously. 04/05/2005 04:48 PM
Xeni Jardin: Reuters covers a gathering of folks who fancy flesh suspension. Do not deride us as dude-kebabs, practitioners say; this is a lifestyle that means something to us.

Tony Troiano grimaced as he was lifted off the floor by giant fishhooks pierced through the skin on his shoulders. Within minutes, he started to spin, swing his feet and declare the painful experience "the greatest thing" ever. "I was on Cloud Nine," the Wethersfield, Connecticut teenager said as he joined fellow body suspension practitioners at an annual convention over the weekend. "It was euphoric. It was spiritual. I'd do it again today if I wasn't so sore."

Link, contains graphic images. (Thanks, Jenni).

Update: Shannon Larratt says, "There are hundreds of photos of the event there for people who want more." Link. Thanks for hooking us up, Shannon!

EarthLink hooks onto Staples

EarthLink hooks onto Staples 12/10/2003 12:40 PM
The ISP is partnering with the office store chain to market its Internet services. Customers in certain stores can use kiosks to sign up for high-speed Web access.

iPod Hooks Another Victim Of Consumerism

iPod Hooks Another Victim Of Consumerism 08/09/2004 11:15 AM
Suddenly, I realized in a zombie-like trance: Everyone in the world owns an iPod. Without it, I was nearly extinction. iPod, therefore I am. I was sans pod. Who was I? By Winston Ross, The Register-Guard (via MyAppleMenu)

Start-up hooks into HP's OpenView

Start-up hooks into HP's OpenView 06/09/2004 08:49 AM

BlackBerry hooks up with Novell and
Vodafone

BlackBerry hooks up with Novell and
Vodafone 06/24/2004 01:20 PM
Computer Weekly Jun 24 2004 3:24PM GMT

Mobiles firm hooks up its 3G services

Mobiles firm hooks up its 3G services 12/16/2003 12:24 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 16 2003 11:10AM ET

Dangling from Meat Hooks, for Fun
(Reuters)

Dangling from Meat Hooks, for Fun
(Reuters) 07/19/2004 09:33 AM
Reuters - Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime -- young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

BlackBerry hooks up with Novell,
Vodafone

BlackBerry hooks up with Novell,
Vodafone 06/23/2004 12:46 PM
Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM) is continuing the proliferation of its BlackBerry wireless platform, announcing a new partnership with Novell Inc. Wednesday as well as an expansion of its relationship with Vodafone Group PLC.

EarthLink hooks up to wireless broadband

EarthLink hooks up to wireless broadband 05/18/2004 11:55 PM
The Internet service provider is tapping Digitalpath Networks to offer WiMax access in a few areas, a sign that it is exploring alternatives to cable and DSL.

Pudge Hooks Marlins; M's Finally Score
(AP)

Pudge Hooks Marlins; M's Finally Score
(AP) 06/12/2004 06:05 AM
AP - After all the hugs and handshakes, Ivan Rodriguez got serious against the Florida Marlins and reminded them what they're missing. And the Seattle Mariners can thank another veteran catcher, Pat Borders, for their first run in four days.

Briefly: Start-up hooks into HP's
OpenView

Briefly: Start-up hooks into HP's
OpenView 06/09/2004 08:49 AM

Trout Fisherman Hooks Wedding Gown (AP)

Trout Fisherman Hooks Wedding Gown (AP) 05/11/2004 06:11 PM
AP - Casting his line into Martha Lake, Ryan Snow was hoping to catch a trout. Instead he caught a wedding dress — and was relieved to find it was empty.

Russia's 3G Association Hooks Up With
UMTS Forum

Russia's 3G Association Hooks Up With
UMTS Forum 06/09/2004 02:00 PM
3G Jun 9 2004 3:50PM GMT

Young in Florida dangle from meat hooks
-- for fun

Young in Florida dangle from meat hooks
-- for fun 07/19/2004 04:26 AM
CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY .. this a new hoax

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Kids dangle from meat hooks for fun
(Reuters)

Kids dangle from meat hooks for fun
(Reuters) 07/18/2004 01:58 PM
Reuters - Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime -- young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

Glasgow NHS hooks up high speed network

Glasgow NHS hooks up high speed network 09/20/2004 01:28 PM
vnunet.com Sep 20 2004 5:11PM GMT

Openinghooks.us Opening Hooks, the hook
project»welcome

Openinghooks.us Opening Hooks, the hook
project»welcome 08/31/2004 02:19 AM
The opening hook

openinghooks.us
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Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person

Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person 11/01/2003 06:29 PM
CrypticSpawn writes "Read on SecurityFocus, a 55 year old woman spammed an FBI computer crime agent. She got caught mailing off a credit card scam to AOL ...

Nortel hooks up with Trapeze - ends
'Wi-Fi swapping' party

Nortel hooks up with Trapeze - ends
'Wi-Fi swapping' party 03/23/2005 03:22 PM
TechWorld Mar 23 2005 6:05PM GMT

Congress Puts Hooks in Spyware,
Copyright Crooks (washingtonpost.com)

Congress Puts Hooks in Spyware,
Copyright Crooks (washingtonpost.com) 09/09/2004 12:21 PM
washingtonpost.com - Congressional lawmakers are taking a cue from Hollywood with an aim to beef up penalties against people who illegally swap copyrighted movies and songs over the Internet. Meanwhile, lawmakers also are targeting spyware and hackers with the threat of jail time for evil cyberspace deeds.

Why MSN is smarter than AOL

Why MSN is smarter than AOL 01/11/2004 10:28 PM
ZDNet Jan 11 2004 9:16PM ET

Smarter Than the CEO

Smarter Than the CEO 05/31/2004 05:26 AM
Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole. By James Surowiecki from Wired magazine.

Smarter Than Me

Smarter Than Me 12/29/2003 11:44 PM
Sometimes I'm accused of being "smart," which bothers me since I don't know what it means. It's a comparative label: if this one is smart, then others are equally smart, smarter, or less smart. Yet all generalizations are false, all comparisons fail. There's no way to measure these things, not really. It's a bogus idea. That's not exactly right. I quickly identify folks smarter than me, but it's not empirical, just a cocktail party chat I have with myself. Probably...

Buy smarter

Buy smarter 05/11/2004 11:56 AM
Computer Weekly May 11 2004 3:24PM GMT

"One of us is smarter than all of us"

"One of us is smarter than all of us" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter 03/22/2005 04:58 PM
Matt Neuburg (~210 words)

Tinderbox Keeps Getting Smarter -- Eastgate Systems' Tinderbox has been upgraded to version 2.4. Tinderbox (see my review in TidBITS-651) is a superb way to create heavily hyperlinked text; text snippets are stored in a hierarchical structure and can be exported as Web pages. I used Tinderbox to create the online help for the Perl editor Affrus, which blogger John Gruber has called "the finest software documentation," in part because it is "cross-linked out the ying-yang." Tinderbox 2.4 makes outlines smarter by permitting any entry to have a rule for updating itself periodically; for example, if you're using Tinderbox to maintain a to-do list, a parent item (representing a category or group of tasks) might have a rule that its "completed" attribute should be true if and only if the "completed" attribute of all its children (the actual tasks) is true. There are also many small bug fixes and aesthetic tweaks, and Tinderbox's Web-page export continues to evolve strongly. Tinderbox runs in both the classic Mac OS (Mac OS 9.2 recommended) and Mac OS X 10.0 and later. Tinderbox costs $165, plus $70 annually for free updates. A demo version is available for download. [MAN]

Living Smarter

Living Smarter 06/05/2004 10:24 AM

Meta-Efficient points to ways to live your life using up fewer resources -- doing right by the planet, and yourself.

spambots get smarter

spambots get smarter 01/06/2004 01:03 PM

Since today started as a "spam kind of day"...

Something I noticed over the last few weeks is that I've started to receive spam that is way more targeted than before. In what sense?

Well, let's say this: I'm getting spam that not only knows my full name, but also my address. Okay, not my current address, but I've already gotten spam that explictly mentions both my New York address (from 5+ years ago) and my SF Bay address (from 2+ years ago). This is bad, not only they know my email address, but they also know where I live(d)! Yes, we know that with time and money you can get a lot of information on anyone, but this has to be done automatically and massively, or otherwise it wouldn't be a practical option for spammers.

Clearly, one way this could happen is if someone (say, buy.com) has been selling their customer information. Since I usually take care of buying online only when my privacy is more or less protected, this is unlikely, though certainly possible.

There's a more likely way in which this connection was made: Google.

Google not only knows the web, it also knows other information... like phone numbers (at least in the US). Jon mentioned this some time ago.

A spambot to get "connected information" would work like this. Say you write an automated script to go through phone numbers on Google. Then the script takes the address data and the person's name, and then googles the person's name. It takes the first few results (or maybe only the first one) and scans the resulting pages to match an email's name to the person's name. Sure, this won't be 100% correct, but spammers don't care about that. And Google's reach makes it reasonable to think that you'd have a reasonably high hit rate. You could even write a program that uses the GoogleAPI for it.

Sure, we could say, as Scott McNealy does, that "you're privacy is gone, get over it". Even if you don't agree with that statement (and I don't, at least I want to resist it!), this is nevertheless disturbing. And the question that follows is: does Google have any responsibility for this? They'd probably say that they're providing a service by integrating yellow pages information, which would be true.

I'm not picking on Google, rather Google is the example here because of its reach and pervasiveness, but I'm sure that similar things can be done with other search engines and if not it won't be long before you can. Can we fix this at all? If so, how?

Since this is the tip of the iceberg, my main thought at the moment is that I'm a character from Lost in Space and all I hear is "Danger Will Robinson! Danger!".

Phishers Think Small

Phishers Think Small 06/05/2005 11:57 PM
Phishing has never been that much of an issue for me, because most of the phishing emails I've received have been for big name banks, where I don't have an account. The bank I do use is pretty small, which I figured made it highly unlikely to be a threat from phishers. Perhaps that assumption was wrong. Phishers have apparently tapped out the big name banks and are increasingly targeting lesser known banks and credit unions as they try to scoop up additional victims -- especially from banks and credit unions (and their customers) who figured they were pretty much immune to the problem. We should have known better... It's really a "security by obscurity" technique, like people who choose a less popular computing platform solely on the basis of "security," when that security may only be because it's less attractive to hackers. Of course, my second strategy in avoiding the problem probably has been working: I pretty much ignore all of the emails from my bank as they tend to just be "spam" marketing anyway.

Microsoft goes after 117 phishers

Microsoft goes after 117 phishers 04/02/2005 04:38 AM
PC Authority Apr 2 2005 9:01AM GMT

Microsoft goes after phishers

Microsoft goes after phishers 04/01/2005 10:39 PM
Big News Network Apr 2 2005 2:41AM GMT

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments

SAP CEO: Not more, but smarter IT
investments 01/28/2004 12:06 AM
DÃœSSELDORF, GERMANY - Accepting the idea that many businesses aren't prepared to spend more on enterprise application software, Germany's SAP AG aims to help them spend smarter.

MS takes rod to phishers

MS takes rod to phishers 04/01/2005 06:47 AM
117 John Doe lawsuits against scammers

Netcraft goes fishing for phishers

Netcraft goes fishing for phishers 12/30/2004 02:08 PM
New plug-in software for browsers aims to help people avoid becoming victims of online fraud.
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