June 2005

Phishing – Just how stupid are we?

I just got the following phishing email. How many people will respond to it and click on the phishing link?

Received: via dmail-2000(11) for blah; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:40:58 -0500 (CDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from server01.netbe.nl (server01.netbe.nl [83.98.158.2])
	by blah (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5ODetSO004797
	for <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:40:55 -0500
Received: from apache by server01.netbe.nl with local (Exim 4.42)
	id 1DloPi-0007A8-Dk
	for [email protected]; Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:40:10 +0200
To: [email protected]
Subject: Unauthorized Access: (Routing Code: P501-A11-G090)
From: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: 
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:40:10 +0200

Dear Paypal User,

U need to update ur account once again, u forgot fill in ATM PIN at 
from update, come to link below and do it.

You have added [email protected] as a new email address for your PayPal 
account. 

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with 
your account, please contact PayPal customer service at: 

http://www.paypalonlineupdate.com/index.htm?cmd=_login-run 

Thank you for using PayPal! The PayPal Team 

Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be 
answered. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the 
"Help" link in the header of any page. 

------------------------------------ 
PROTECT YOUR PASSWORD 

NEVER give your password to anyone and ONLY log in at 
https://www.paypal.com/.Protect yourself against fraudulent websites by 
opening a new web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape) and 
typing in the PayPal URL every time you log in to your account. 

------------------------------------- 

PayPal Email ID PP75001 

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What port was that?

Digg.com, one of my favorite sites, has a link to this site which lists TCP and UDP ports that many applications use. Why would you need such a list? — well, one good reason is so you can open up (or close) ports in your firewall to allow (or prevent) access. It lists all of the standards, like SMTP (25) and TELNET (23) but missed SSH (22) and Exchange (a whole range of ports). It’s strength, though, is that it lists a lot of games.

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Affordable Network Attached Storage

I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Fry’s has the Tritton Technologies Simple NAS (TRI-NSS001) on sale for $99 with a $30 mail-in rebate. That’s $100 before rebate, folks … for a box that you can populate with a drive of any size … and access over your network … SMB (i.e. Windows) or FTP!

And, yes, Outpost.com has it, too. Same price, same rebate.

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