Latest Phishing Scam Preys on Surfers’ Morbid Curiosity

Pulkit Chandna — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:12:25 -0600

Internet shenanigans are keeping abreast with the latest developments around the world and using it to their advantage. An email doing the rounds around the internet hoodwinks the recipient into believing that it is from CNN. The clandestine email ostensibly contains a link to a “graphic” video of the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. However, the fake website contains a Trojan that betrays the user’s sensitive data, according to the RSA.

The author of the phishing attack has tried to make the website as plausible as possible. Upon visiting the link, the user is greeted with a message asking him to update his Adobe Flash Player. If the user lends his countenance to the download, a Trojan is downloaded instead of the latest version of Flash

Image Credit: Cnet

Israeli Consulate Holds Twitter Press Conference

Andy Salisbury — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:45:41 -0600

When the people won’t come to the politics, you’ve got to bring the politics to the people. At least, this is the idea that the Israeli Consulate in New York took with a “Citizen’s Press Conference” yesterday.

David Saranga, Consul of Media and Public Affairs took questions regarding the situation in Israel and Gaza from Twitter users yesterday from 1-3pm, all directly from their Twitter page. You can check out all the action here.

All in all, this is a pretty cool step. From how active the page was it’s easy to see that the consulate had plenty of questions to answer, and that good amounts of people were eager to get involved.

Image Credit: Twitter

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