LoLo’s safe for work blog about Internet scams, deceptive marketing, spam, spyware, adware, and other asshatery.
24
Jan
In case you haven’t heard…
There’s a zillion billion news stories going around about MySpace filing suit against Scott Richter who is fairly well known as the “Spam King”. He picked up that name after owning a clothing line that used it (in violation of someones trademark, naturally) and for… Well, being one of the biggest […]
21
Jan
About a week back my buddy Paul Wood from MessageLabs received a friend request from “some lovely lady – ahem” on MySpace. If you’re a regular over at the trailer park of the interweb, you’re more than use to getting bogus friend requests from fake profiles being used to market some nonsense, phish your password, […]
8
Jan
For the love of strippers and one dollar bills, you would think that the QuickTime mess over at MySpace would be over by now. Well, it’s not. Here we are with a new QuickTime worm over 30 days after MySpace and Apple completely botched up their security patch effort which resulted in a goofy blame […]
10
Dec
A few weeks back I posted this blog entry predicting that QuickTime embeds would be used for upcoming MySpace worms and other evilness. Sure enough, ten days later I broke the story of the latest worm to hit MySpace. After my buddy PaperGhost wrote about it on his personal and company blogs it exploded all […]
30
Nov
Yesterday, a metric ton of MySpace accounts were infected with yet another worm. As I predicted ten days ago, it was accomplished via a QuickTime embed. Visiting the profile of anyone infected would cause the navigation links across the top of your profile (Home | Browse | Search […]