First UK Phishing Arrest - Catching Clueless Kids Instead Of Real Criminals

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Parents clueless about kids online

Parents clueless about kids online 07/21/2004 05:55 AM
Need to get 'Web wise'

How Criminals are Phishing to Commit
Identity Theft and Fraud

How Criminals are Phishing to Commit
Identity Theft and Fraud 05/31/2004 01:51 PM
Phishing is a technique that criminals use to commit identity theft and fraud. CreditGUARD of America, a non-profit credit counseling agency, explains how to spot phishing and protect yourself from identity theft. [PRWEB May 31, 2004]

UK police arrest 12 phishing mule
suspects

UK police arrest 12 phishing mule
suspects 05/05/2004 09:40 AM
Dirty dozen

Phishing: un caso real

Phishing: un caso real 04/06/2005 07:13 AM

Phishing: Real scams, fake sites

Phishing: Real scams, fake sites 07/21/2004 02:32 PM
Computer Buyer Jul 21 2004 6:29PM GMT

Anti-Phishing Toolbar Available. How to
Avoid Bank and Ebay Phishing Scams

Anti-Phishing Toolbar Available. How to
Avoid Bank and Ebay Phishing Scams 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Tech-Recipes Dec 30 2004 11:09PM GMT

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series

Kids Have a ‘Doggone’ Good Time with
Launch of RAGGS Kids Club Band Video
Series 08/10/2004 03:43 AM
[PRWEB Aug 10, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom.

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as “Smart Zone Kids” Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom. 12/22/2004 01:28 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 10, 2004]

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom

Keeping Your Kids Truly Safe and Secure
on the Internet Now Just Became as Easy
as "Smart Zone Kids" Browser Available
Through Wholesale-Telecom 12/30/2004 05:15 AM
Wholesale-Telecom is now offering an Internet browser that protects children and teenagers from online pedophiles and inappropriate content The browser is totally interactive for parents to customize to their preference. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids

MP3 Players Aren't Just For Kids; In
Fact They're Barely For Kids 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
The common bit of wisdom is that MP3s are a young person's technology. It's the teens and the folks just coming out of college that are the MP3 generation, after all, so they'd be the most likely to own an MP3 player, right? Not at all, apparently. A new study says that 90% of MP3 player owners over 34 years old. While this may have something to do with the high price of many of the best MP3 players, the numbers still don't seem right. It would be interesting to see the methodology behind this study. That's not to say that those over 34 aren't likely to own an MP3 player, but it's hard to believe that 90% of MP3 players go to those 35 and older.

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids

Presents For Bad Kids Head To eBay,
Rather Than Kids 12/27/2004 04:42 AM
Well, normally, people wait until after they've received presents to dump them on eBay. However, one father who felt his three sons were being particularly bad lately decided that to punish them he's putting their presents up for sale on eBay. To be honest, this sounds like a bit of a publicity stunt -- and it seems likely that, now that this is getting attention, that casino that seems to be buying e very random quirky auction item will snap this one up. Update: Whoops. It's apparently already happened. Indeed, the casino in question has d ecided to buy the undelivered presents. This is sort of an update on our story last year about how sellers were increasingly looking to use eBay as a publicity generating tool. It appears that's now being used by buyers to generate publicity, as well.

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids

Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids 06/22/2005 02:48 AM


Ithaki 4 KiDs MetaSearch Engine for Kids
http://kids.ithaki.net/

Ithaki 4 KiDs helps you to find the best sites just for kids via searching in real time several search engines for kids like DmozKids, Yahooligans, FactMonster, ArtKIDSRule, AolKIDS, AwesomeLibrary & KidsClick!. Ithaki is a metasearch engine, it finds quickly the best web sites because it searches at once the top search engines and guides for kids, then ranks the results according to an internal ranking to make sure you get the exactly what you're looking for. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides.

"Captain of the Clueless"

"Captain of the Clueless" 12/25/2004 11:30 PM

Clueless in Berkeley

Clueless in Berkeley 07/12/2004 04:07 PM
I have written before of my love for my favorite feature in the Berkeley Daily Planet, the Police Blotter. Today while reading it, I ran across this absolute gem which caused me to lose a mouthful of hot Peet's coffee in front of the Cheeseboard. Knife-Wielder Earns Cellular Domicile A 48-year-old Berkeley man found himself with a new and tightly confined residence after police busted him for flashing a knife at a fellow citizen near the corner of Center Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way at 9:37 a.m. Friday. The felon seems to have overlooked that building on the corner and all those blue-clad badge-wearing folks who pass through its portals en route to their black-and-white cars. (For those of you unfamiliar with Berkeley geography, our new police headquarters is at the corner of MLK and Center.) How do you get a job writing stuff like this? I want one. It made my day....

Rise of the Clueless

Rise of the Clueless 07/19/2004 09:54 AM
In Wired's July issue, Contributing writer Cory Doctorow writes about the movie I, Robot, in a slam at the late Dr. Isaac Asimov titled Rise of the Machines. I would rather Wired had found someone who had actually read more than two or three Asimov short stories. There is a lot in this article that is debatable but presented as concrete fact, and other "facts" which are downright false.

USS Clueless - How to fight

USS Clueless - How to fight 07/17/2004 04:59 AM
what to do if you have to fight a terrorist on a plane .. has already been brought to bear on this subject .. Steven Den Beste .. ballpoint pen .. (‡) .. bellicose

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Clueless bank

Clueless bank 02/10/2004 03:56 PM
I have an account at Imperial Capital Bank (yes, I know – there are countless jokes to be made of that name). I have it mostly because their interest rate on their checking account is quite good (1.92%, for now ...). Actually, that's the only reason I have an account there. Anyway, I have a check for some GBP laying around, so I called them to find out what they'd charge and which exchange rate they'd use and so...

USS Clueless - The truth is...

USS Clueless - The truth is... 04/30/2004 04:57 AM
Steven Den Beste: The Truth Is .. brilliant article .. IRRITATED

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Many UK citizens still clueless about
Wi-Fi

Many UK citizens still clueless about
Wi-Fi 04/14/2005 10:07 PM

"USS Clueless - The truth is..."

"USS Clueless - The truth is..." 05/02/2004 08:40 AM

Clueless In Seattle

Clueless In Seattle 06/19/2004 04:30 AM
Can there be some psychological basis to Microsoft court behavior? By Robert X. Cringely, PBS (via MyAppleMenu)

USS Clueless - Another hammer blow

USS Clueless - Another hammer blow 12/22/2003 05:32 AM
Steven den Beste notes the dynamics behind Lybia's capitulation .. Another hammer blow

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USS Clueless - American robustness

USS Clueless - American robustness 01/27/2004 04:41 AM
The latest from Steven Den Beste

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Cardholders clueless on chip and pin

Cardholders clueless on chip and pin 08/13/2004 05:01 AM
Chaotic Xmas in prospect for retailers

Clueless Old Media, Continued

Clueless Old Media, Continued 06/24/2004 02:30 PM

Cyberjournalist is reporting a truly weird situation, in which the CMP media sites are refusing referrals from Google News. The claim is that Google's referrals are somehow "outside the bounds of fair use" -- whatever that means. Hello?

Lay contends he was clueless about fraud

Lay contends he was clueless about fraud 07/14/2004 08:32 PM

USS Clueless - Saddam's trial

USS Clueless - Saddam's trial 12/19/2003 03:48 PM
In fact, what I think we're seeing is fear, panic and desperation.I think those commentators have made the mistake of taking the leftists at their word. For example, Tacitus comments acidly on leftist claims that Saddam's trial would lack "legitimacy" un

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USS Clueless - A letter from Tehran

USS Clueless - A letter from Tehran 12/02/2003 04:52 PM
STEVEN DEN BESTE:

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"USS Clueless - Another hammer blow"

"USS Clueless - Another hammer blow" 12/22/2003 08:54 PM

Why many companies are clueless about
monitoring IM issues

Why many companies are clueless about
monitoring IM issues 09/01/2004 11:56 AM
Risks associated with having electronic communications subpoenaed during lawsuits or regulatory investigations have prompted some businesses to establish policies to address email concerns, but many firms are clueless when it comes to handling instant messaging issues.

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene

Clueless Article About Canada's Wi-Fi
Scene 02/16/2004 01:25 PM
This writer seems to enjoy writing as though he's an authority when it's clear he's not: He's read all the hype about Wi-Fi but gets enough wrong that he obviously hasn't done his own research. His general point is that Canada is behind the United States in deploying hotspots. But he hasn't got very good research to back that up. His strongest piece of evidence seems to be a conversation he had recently with one computer programmer who had never heard of Wi-Fi. He goes on to say that the market is primed to change dramatically because Canada's largest carriers said they'd create a unified standard to let customers roam between their networks. This so-called standard was developed without any of the major existing Canadian Wi-Fi operators, such as FatPort, and none of the four carriers involved had deployed hotspots when they set the roaming standard. It's also just a "standard" (how they'll handle billing, etc.), not a roaming deal. So the carriers could deploy networks and still not roam. (Meanwhile, FatPort has built hundreds of locations and secured roaming with several international networks.) He also pointed to a recent study that said no hotspots' business model could succeed if the only revenue source was connection fees. That study is bad news for cafes in the U.S., he says, because many of them offer access for free. But the two aren't related. Free hotspot operators have a totally different business model than those that charge. He closes by pointing out "guerilla Wi-Fi warriors" in Canada who warchalk. Warchalking is a great idea and testament to the community behind Wi-Fi, but who has actually seen a symbol? If this writer's point is that Wi-Fi hasn't taken off in Canada, then it's doubtful that people there are actually warchalking....

White knight defends clueless users

White knight defends clueless users 04/30/2004 07:49 AM
Letters: But not from robobollards

Clueless user: ditch the victim
mentality

Clueless user: ditch the victim
mentality 04/28/2004 10:26 AM
Opinion Get with the security programme

USS Clueless - Human Rights digital
watch

USS Clueless - Human Rights digital
watch 12/14/2003 02:51 PM
savagely Fisking Human Rights Watch, .. Steven den Beste .. USS Clueless .. rant

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Whose criminals are they?

Whose criminals are they? 11/17/2003 10:04 PM
Whose criminals are they? Canada and the U.S. are deporting immigrant criminals back to the Caribbean -- criminals who were born there but, in many cases, raised in North America. Whose problem are they? Virtually every Caribbean country feels the burden of the deportations, espe cially from the U.S., which, in 1998, deported 55,500 "aliens" on criminal grounds, 3,700 to the Caribbean. Defenders of the deportations say Canada and the U.S. are just getting rid of bad apples, many of whom shouldn't be here in the first place. But The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says that, frequently, the deportees have little more than place of birth to connect them to the region. In most cases these deportees have no money, little education, few relatives or friends to whom they can turn, and many are truly violent and lawless. The culture of drugs and guns that many carry back to their native lands is wreaking havoc in nations that receive them in substantial numbers.

Thousands of clueless web surfers + a
good aggregation engine

Thousands of clueless web surfers + a
good aggregation engine 12/19/2004 03:36 PM
Yoz has a brilliant brilliant brilliant idea. Or, to put it another way... Tired: Third-world data-processing sweatshops Wired: Thousands of clueless web surfers + a good aggregation engine I, too, kiss the mighty Yoz brain....

Clueless MCSE DeVry Grad Reviews Mac
mini

Clueless MCSE DeVry Grad Reviews Mac
mini 02/05/2005 09:11 PM

Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of
Friendster

Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of
Friendster 08/31/2004 05:31 PM
Clueless newbie award: Scott Sassa of Friendster .. cancel your account in protest .. Joyce's husband, Tim .. fire

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Criminals may opt for Voice over IP

Criminals may opt for Voice over IP 06/17/2004 03:52 AM

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At least it's still forty-two...

At least it's still forty-two... 04/09/2005 10:19 PM
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy isn't sounding too flash. "This is a terrible, terrible film and it makes me want to weep." At least we enjoyed the trailer!

Forty-two.

Forty-two. 12/25/2004 05:20 PM
Douglas Adams will soon be coming to the silver screen (again). New concept art, casting info, updated news, as well as some background on the project has been diligently compiled. A short trailer and some additional concept art can be found on the official movie site.

Forty years ago today

Forty years ago today 02/15/2004 02:33 PM
Actually, it was in 1960, four years before the Beatles showed up on Ed Sullivan, that Doug McIlroy published Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages, which appears to be a seminal paper in the literature of metaprogramming. I mention this because a number of folks have responded to last week's item, Programs that write programs, pointing out that Lisp programmers have been there, done that:

"your note about code generation, and the referenced discussions - bits of which i'd already read elsewhere, left me with a really eerie feeling, that i might not be living in the same dimension with you folks. you see, there's a practice of code generation which extends back decades: lisp. code generations is a lisp programmer's bread and butter."

"In the lisp world, they call these macros. The idea is pretty widely known, though not too many languages implement them. Perl 6, and by extension the Parrot interpreter, will include macros, and they will thus be available to any language that gets implemented on top of Parrot (which currently includes Ruby, Python, (maybe) PHP, and, of course, Perl)."

...

Forty shows for BBC Two birthday

Forty shows for BBC Two birthday 04/13/2004 04:46 AM
BBC Two's The Office and Monty Python are among 40 shows picked to celebrate the channel's 40th birthday.

Forty Years of Moore's Law

Forty Years of Moore's Law 04/05/2005 06:43 PM

FAQ: Forty years of Moore's Law

FAQ: Forty years of Moore's Law 04/01/2005 08:55 AM
Gordon Moore's famous law has been around for four decades. Not bad for an idea he thought wouldn't last.
Photos: Moore and his law

Forty hurt in Bulgaria gas attack

Forty hurt in Bulgaria gas attack 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
At least 40 people are hurt, some seriously, in a poison gas attack at a police office in the capital, Sofia.

Forty Percent of All Email is Spam

Forty Percent of All Email is Spam 03/13/2003 10:16 AM

Forty years after Fannie Lou Hamer

Forty years after Fannie Lou Hamer 07/28/2004 09:54 PM

NLM Funds Forty Health Information and
Access Projects

NLM Funds Forty Health Information and
Access Projects 09/12/2004 07:11 AM
NLM Funds Forty Health Information and Access Projects
http://www.nl m.nih.gov/news/nnlmelectronic04.html

The U.S. National Library of Medicine recently announced that 40 projects designed to improve access to electronic health information for the general public have been funded through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Projects, scattered among 24 states, range from disseminating information on rare disorders, to maintaining Web sites for specific groups, to ratcheting up existing healthcare information Web sites. For example, the Periodic Paralysis Association of Monrovia, Calif., plans to use its grant to develop a Web-based video library to enhance the diagnostic knowledge base for this class of rare neurological disorders. The Florida Gulfcoast North Area Health Education Center and two other partners will expand and support the Florida School Nurse Project, which will include training and access to health information for school nurses and related professionals. And the Mississippi Valley State University James Herbert White Library and partners from local Golden Age Club and Boys and Girls Club will establish a program to train youth and senior adults in locating and using electronic health information. All projects will last up to 18 months. (National Library of Medicine 23 Aug 2004)

Lordy, lordy, look who's forty!

Lordy, lordy, look who's forty! 01/23/2004 03:54 AM
Lunch. [Quicktime, resizes screen, possibly NSFW, via MonkeyFilter.]

Gone Phishing

Gone Phishing 01/25/2004 09:50 PM

Phishing for the end

Phishing for the end 08/17/2004 04:56 PM
"This site was created with one goal; to create the most comprehensive online archive of information and digital photos of the Coventry Vermont Phish show, August 14th and 15th 2004." Seems odd to think folks went to the trouble of dedicating an entire website to just a single concert, until you learn it was the very last one for Phish.

Political Phishing

Political Phishing 08/03/2004 12:32 PM
It's election season, and that means that, just like with all the other news-sensitive scams, phishers are getting political. The latest is a phishing email that simply copied a donation request from the John Kerry campaign, but changed the link to a fake site. Of course, the folks behind the scam made one very stupid mistake: remotely using an image hosted on the Kerry website -- which was quickly changed by the campaign to explain that the site was a scam (though, it's likely this confused some people -- hopefully enough to stop them from donating). Still, it's likely that the next version won't make the same mistake. With the success phishing emails have had lately, and the fervor with which people seem to be donating to campaigns, an awful lot of cash supposedly going to campaigns is going to be making criminals wealthy.

Phishing on the rise in U.S

Phishing on the rise in U.S 06/15/2004 02:57 PM
ZDNet Jun 15 2004 5:56PM GMT

Phishing for Opera (GM#007-OP)

Phishing for Opera (GM#007-OP) 06/03/2004 12:03 PM
GreyMagic Software (Jun 03 2004)

DIY phishing kits hit the Net

DIY phishing kits hit the Net 08/19/2004 05:48 AM
My little fraudster

War Against Phishing Continues

War Against Phishing Continues 03/14/2005 04:32 PM
Phishers and other online scammers are well ahead of law enforcement officials and security experts right now in terms of techniques and tactics.

The future of phishing

The future of phishing 04/29/2004 10:42 AM
vnunet.com Apr 29 2004 2:09PM GMT

Do-it-yourself phishing kits appear on
web

Do-it-yourself phishing kits appear on
web 08/21/2004 04:39 PM
Personal Computer World Aug 21 2004 8:48PM GMT

Phishing behind Google

Phishing behind Google 08/28/2004 01:03 AM

I just received a phishing email purporting to be from PayPal.  No surprise there since I get many of them everyday, but I looked closer at this one because it looked very professionally done.  I looked at the raw message and found this odd link:

This particular phisher is bouncing off Google to hide itself from domain name-based phishing detectors and scanners.  Clever.  Clicking on the link will open a browser to Google's URL search CGI which will automatically redirect the browser to the phishing site at IP address 209.152.181.10.  This trick will bypass phishing detectors that examines only the domain name part of a URL to see if it looks suspicious.

So the lesson here for security developers is to look at all the parameters and to keep track of oh-so-helpful redirectors like Google.  Also, website developers should keep in mind that helpful service is helpful to all, including the bad guys, and they might become an unwitting partner in crime.  For lawyers, it's a new source of income concern.

Phishing and Bouncing

Phishing and Bouncing 09/12/2004 12:36 PM

Looks like the trick of using redirection CGIs at popular website (described in Phishing with Google) is getting popular among phishers. I just got a couple that uses AOL's redir-complex CGI at:

http://r.aol.com/cgi/redir-complex?url=whereever

Note that phishers can use not just the redirecting CGIs, but also those CGIs that use return URL as parameters.  In fact, these types of CGIs are popular among financial institutions and single-sign on services.  For example, both Passport and 3D-Secure uses them.

eBay Goes Phishing

eBay Goes Phishing 01/03/2005 12:35 PM
The popular online auction site rolls out a new approach in tackling account hackers: cut bait.

IE bug provides phishing tool

IE bug provides phishing tool 12/10/2003 05:50 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 10 2003 5:09AM ET

Phishing Dips into Yahoo IM

Phishing Dips into Yahoo IM 03/25/2005 09:19 PM
eWeek Mar 26 2005 1:33AM GMT

Best news in the war on spam: phishing

Best news in the war on spam: phishing 05/24/2004 03:10 AM
Boston Globe May 24 2004 6:25AM GMT

Crooks Are Phishing For Your Life

Crooks Are Phishing For Your Life 05/19/2004 04:15 PM
CBS News May 19 2004 8:20PM GMT

Phishing to cost SA millions'

Phishing to cost SA millions' 05/18/2004 10:36 PM
Sunday Times South Africa May 19 2004 2:49AM GMT

Phishing on rise: Study

Phishing on rise: Study 06/15/2004 04:42 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 15 2004 9:27PM GMT

First UK Phishing Arrest - Catching Clueless Kids Instead Of Real Criminals

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