Entries from May 2006

How about some phishing reporting standards?

May 30, 2006

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.

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 from [...]