Righard Zwienenberg
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To the Millions and Millions of People… How Not to Warn the Millions!
Last week, a data breach at Epsilon has put millions of e-mail addresses and names on the street. According to Epsilon, only 2% of their client data is affected, but that still leaves a lot of data on the street. Epsilon is handling the (bulk) e-mail for lots of large … Read More
666.624 IPv4 Addresses Sold for $7.5M to Microsoft
Don’t you love it when your predictions come true… On 3 February 2011 I wrote a blog item “IPcalypse happened: Will the Internet collapse? For $ale, my IPv4 number!!!” In that blog I wrote “Another curious effect we may see is people offering their IPv4 numbers for $ale on e.g. … Read More
Damage Caused by Internet Banking Fraud Quintuples… What’s Next?
It is not a surprise, more and more people are banking online and thus cybercriminals move more and more into that region. Banking fraud on the internet is not new. It has been existing for a few years and with different variants of the Zeus Banking Trojan, many people became … Read More
Domain Name Scam Relived: AsiaGov
Two years ago a wrote a series of blogs on Domain Name Scammers trying to sell Norman domains we did not want and were “claimed” by “unknown” people. But if we reacted promptly, although they use a first come, first serve principle, they “generously” would allow us the domains. You … Read More
IPcalypse Happened: Will the Internet Collapse? For $ale, my IPv4 Number!!!
As I mentioned in my blog from 16 January “IPv4: IPcalypse“, the available number of IPv4 addresses was reaching zero. That has happened, IANA Central Registry of IPv4 addreses is exhausted. Not on the predicted 11 February 2011, but 8 days earlier, today, 3 February 2011. It will be a … Read More
Forum Spam, a First-hand Experience!!!
Besides working for Norman, I also act as the president of AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization. And of course Norman is also a member of AMTSO. If you like to know what AMTSO is all about, please go here… AMTSO is a non-profit organization and therefore we do as … Read More
The Conficker Working Group Lessons Learned Document
Conficker has been (and still slightly is) making an impact on the security world. It has been spreading over the world infecting many systems. Even today we still see infection reports of Conficker. In 2008 the Conficker Working Group was created between security organizations and individual security-specialists to fight Conficker. … Read More
Identity Sharing… Multi-component Phishing Attempt?
I am going to Turkey. Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! I won!!!! But eh… Wait a minute? I did not even know I participated in a lottery!?!?! How it all started… As I own some domains, I can create almost an infinite number of e-mail addresses. And I regularly do so. Every … Read More
Iran Can Get Google Software, but Not Google Talk as it is Not Safe for Them! It is for Us?
In an official Google Blog, Google announced that it will make Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome available for download in Iran. Ever since the Reagan administration Iran has been under sanction meaning there has been limitations in trading with Iran. In the Blog, Neil Martin, Export Compliance Programs Manager, says … Read More
IPv4: IPcalypse
For some time I follow the countdown of allocatable IP4 addresses. As you may have heard before for some years, IP4 will come to an end when there are no more IP4 addresses to be allocated. The IPv4 scheme provides for roughly 4 billion addresses. Convenient ways to follow the … Read More
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