Archive for January, 2010
An old scam has been updated for the mobile 21st century.
Apparently there’s a new phishing scam that’s targeting iPhone users. I guess this means that iPhones have really saturated the market.
According to Sophos, the subject line:
IMPORTANT: Your iPhone Warranty Extension for 1 Year!
The forged sender:
iphonewarranty at apple dot com
The phishing scam is trying to [...]
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The other day, I started seeing status updates of colors come across the News Feed in Facebook referring to the bra people were wearing themselves. It quickly devolved to guys messing around and posting things like “diamond studded”. Not only was it TMI (did my professional colleagues [...]
Earth Shakes, Twitter Explodes
Yesterday, there was an earthquake and instead of Stopping, Dropping, and Covering as I had done many times during earthquake drills in elementary and middle and probably even high school, I just stopped… and then I checked the USGS website for the report. And when I got on Facebook and Twitter, I was not [...]
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