Hey, you financial institutions! How about coming up with a standard email account for your domain for reporting phishing scams? spoof@ebay.com (and paypal.com and wamu.com) emailspoof@citigroup.com reportphish@wellsfargo.com abuse@bankofamerica.com fraud_prevention@citizensbank.com Come on. This is no time for creativity and branding.
Entries from May 2006
How about some phishing reporting standards?
May 30, 2006
Secret Al Qaeda memo uncovered…
May 24, 2006
A secret memo has been uncovered, documenting a high-level planning meeting of Al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks. One terrorist argued that they should send a plane to Washington DC, targeting the US Constitution, the symbol of the great Satan government. But Osama said they should blow up the World Trade Center, and the Americans [...]
The Da Vinci Code (the movie)
May 21, 2006
If you’re read the book, skip the movie. The Da Vinci Code is at its heart a mystery suspense thriller. If you already know how it all turns out, then there isn’t any mystery and hardly any suspense. The book had a wonderful pace to it. The movie seemed to jump from situation to situation [...]
Surgeon General’s Warning?
May 12, 2006
So I installed Microsoft OneNote and was giving it a test drive. I dragged a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet icon onto my OneNote note. Then I double-clicked the link it created. Here’s the message I got: [Big Red "X"] Hyperlinks can be harmful to your computer and data. To protect your computer, click only those hyperlinks [...]