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Telus spam email

Hello all, Please be aware of the following spam message circulating Originating ip 217.25.118.34 Location 217.25.118.34 located in Austria Originating email [email protected]

Looking for interest in a network security club

Hello All , I am looking to see if anyone would be interested in an online network security club or meeting however you would like to call it my thinking is we can meet weekly or monthly via Skype or team speak or some other means we can cover issues regarding network security or answer […]

Mitigate Spammers With Barracuda Antispam Gateways

Hello All, this post is directed to businesses and IT pros who have to deal with spam issues Do you have an issue with spam ? A way to mitigate spam attacks with ease can be done with a couple of different things such as proper mail server configuration protecting internal emails from being published […]

Job posting scam email

Hello all, Please be aware of the below email that has been going around offering a data Entry Position Analysis Mail server ip located in :117.41.185.73 is from China(CN) in region Southern and Eastern Asia Type of Threat – Phishing Link leads to a suspicious website offering advertising If you see the below email please […]

Phishing Email Received – Scotia Bank

Hello Everyone Please beware of the below email if you see this email in your inbox please mark as spam and delete Type of email – Phishing Email Origin Ip – 24.196.97.234 Origin Country – 24.196.97.234 is from United States(US) in region North America Link in email actually points to http://jailtimeconsulting.com/kikil/index.php Beginning of the message […]

New Section for spam emails

Hello Everyone ! I have added a new Section Where I will post spam emails and show an analysis of what makes them spam and also will show where they are coming from For now, you can find this new section under home security > email security > Spam messages

Blog Upgrade complete

Hello All so the switch to WordPress went smooth and the blog is now up I will start posting in this blog actively starting on Monday ! I hope you all like the switch let me know what you think !   Thanks all

Upgrading my blog

Hello All, I am currently in the process of upgrading my blog to a WordPress blog which allows me to present information in a much better way and the ability to categorize my subjects in a website form I will still update this blog until I’ve completed the switch I will provide the new link […]

A little continuation of my fail2ban post

Recently I was able to capture some real data from my servers fail2ban logs this is how fail2ban logs look for banning ips 2012-10-21 12:54:16,032 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [ssh] Ban 112.4.172.217 2012-10-22 17:05:48,080 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [ssh] Ban 222.73.24.10 2012-10-22 18:36:55,892 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [ssh] Ban 202.96.199.150 2012-10-22 23:23:10,053 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [ssh] Ban 111.74.82.33 2012-10-23 05:06:53,861 fail2ban.actions: WARNING […]

Cyberbullying : what parents can do

Hello All, Lately in the news we have been hearing a lot about online bullying or cyberbullyingthis brings a new issue that today parents have to deal with some parents are asking themselves what can be done to protect their children again such attacks here are some tips parents can use 1.) parental controls on […]

SSH brute-force attack on Cisco routers and ways to stop it !

Here is what an ssh brute-force attack looks like from a  Cisco router log uthentication Failed] at 01:13:18 UTC Sun Sep 30 2012*Sep 30 01:13:18.463: %SEC_LOGIN-1-QUIET_MODE_ON: Still timeleft for watching failures is 0 secs, [user: root] [Source: 211.144.68.163] [localport: 22] [Reason: Login Authentication Failed] [ACL: 100] at 01:13:18 UTC Sun Sep 30 2012*Sep 30 01:13:24.967: […]

Been a while

Hello All , sorry it has been a very long time since I posted on this blog I will be making regular updates to this blog starting this week we will still follow the same  weekly topics ! If you have any suggestions or a topic you wish to be covered please contact me ! […]

New Spam Email received today

Emailed from  [email protected] Ashirin Jamilah & Nor (K.Sel)No. 9A, Jalan Melati 3/21,Bandar Melawati.45000 Kuala LumpurSelangorTel:+60163722712 Dear Sean, I am Ashirin Jamilah,an attorney at law. A deceased client of mine, by name MrAdams Mancini,who was here and after shall be referred as my client,he died with hisfamilyin gulf air flight crashes in Persian gulf near Bahrain […]

ddos attack on Amazon seems imminent

Network security news from networksecurity.tk be advised everyone the team supporting WikiLeaks has said on their Twitter account they are voting to take down a company’s website that was a part of  the wikileaks.org take down

New African Scam Email Received

Today I received a new scam email from a “dr” say he would like to transfer money from a bank in africa  that has been unclaimed  to a sum of  $12,000,000  this is a common scam going around where the scammer steal your identity by luring you to give up certain info like account numbers […]