Comments on: Stolen email accounts, 90 bucks and some Chinese spam.

By: Helix-E NSA » Test for compromised email accounts

Helix-E NSA » Test for compromised email accounts — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:58:58 +0000

[...] Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro has put the incident into perspective, explaining that 10,000 stolen email accounts are nothing out [...]

By: Test für eventuell gehackte Hotmail,Yahoo oder Googleaccounts - eByteNet - Der Blog

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:57:35 +0000

[...] wären, alleine die Tatsache das diese im Internet veröffentlich wurden sei ungewöhnlich. HIER kann man den ganzen Eintrag lesen und Fotos von Seiten betrachten bei denen man noch 10% Rabatt [...]

By: Comprueba si tu cuenta de email está entre las 10.000 robadas hace 2 semanas | Marketing en Internet

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:57:01 +0000

[...] de Trend Micro quita importancia a este robo, ya que son habituales (ver entrada en su blog: “Stolen email accounts, 90 bucks and some Chinese spam”). El precio de 10.000 cuentas robadas en el mercado son de 90 dólares (con un descuento del [...]

By: Test za ugrožene račune | Programer

Test za ugrožene račune | Programer — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:55:19 +0000

[...] međuvremenu, Rik Ferguson u Trend Micro je stavio incident u perspektivi, objašnjavajući da je ukradeno 10.000 računa e-pošte nisu [...]

By: 1 Cent « Erich sieht

1 Cent « Erich sieht — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:30:16 +0000

[...] E-Mail-Accounts, ein einzelner Account ist also ungefähr einen Cent wert: »Unterdessen rückt Rik Ferguson von Trend Micro den Vorfall in die richtige Perspektive. 10.000 gestohlene Account-Daten seien nichts [...]

By: Jesus Alvarez

Jesus Alvarez — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:10:01 +0000

After almost having being duped by a phoney email from PayPal warning me about suspicious activity, I now don’t know what’s real and what’s fake.

This morning I received a very real looking email “offer” from Symantec for a FREE Norton Internet Security upgrade. I went to the Symantec site and found no similar offer. When I Googled the same wording, nothing came up as a free offer.

The email I received had my name on it but the sender was Norton from Symantec / Symantec[at]reply[dot]digitalriver[dot]com

The [at] reply part before the name made me think it could be a fake site.

There was a time when a fake/phishing email could be easily spotted. I think those days are over.