Fake Windows patch e-mail leads to Trojan horse attack
Messages insisting that users install a just-released Microsoft Corp. security update are bogus and actually lead to a site that plants malicious code on PCs, several security companies warned today.
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28.6.2007 Fake Google Email Attempts to Steal Your Money
We all know that Google, the Mountain View super search giant, communicates with its users by phone or by email every time users have to be informed about important matters.
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23.3.2008 Leaked Google Chrome OS Private Beta Screenshots Are Fake
Just a day after Google confirmed that it was cooking its own breed of open source operating system, the first screenshots allegedly depicting Google Chrome Operating System got leaked.
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9.7.2009 Microsoft investigating fake WinLogon patch
Microsoft is investigating an e-mail that appears to be a security warning from the software heavyweight which patches a vulnerability in the "WinLogon Service".
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29.5.2006 Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages?
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords.
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23.11.2006 Probably Fake IE8 alpha screenshots appear on the Internet
IE8 is set to be released in mid-2008, so we can fully expect IE9 to ship with Windows 7 (formerly known as Windows Vienna).
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5.7.2007 Beware: Fake Microsoft patch malware
“We received some questions from customers about an e-mail that’s circulating that claims to be a security e-mail from Microsoft.
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15.10.2008 Incoming - Real and fake Win7 patches
Microsoft has made available a patch to a Windows 7 bug in the Release Candidate (RC) and is preparing to roll out some “fake” test patches to verify Windows 7’s automatic-updating abilities this week.
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13.5.2009 Microsoft Deletes Fake Xbox Live Accounts
Following on from the recent launch of the video marketplace for the Xbox 360, many users who suffer from regional download barriers, simply created fake accounts from outside America.
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29.11.2006 Windows 7 RC1 Build 7048 is Fake may be 7041 or 7046
Last time we talked about Windows 7 RC1 build 7048 which was rumored to be released a group of Beta Tester. Win7info a dedicated Windows 7 blog reveals that the actual build was 7041 not 7048. According to Geeksmack : ”
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1.3.2009 Google Links Blog Search to Google News
Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page.
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24.10.2006 Google Chrome - Web browser from Google
Google has released the very first beta of their new web browser, Google Chrome. Chrome is a browser that, for now at least, is focused on offering a full browsing experience within a minimalistic user interface.
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2.9.2008 Who's reading your mail?
Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls, e-mails and post by secret agencies and other authorised bodies in just over a year, the spying watchdog said yesterday.
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21.2.2007 Microsoft's Not the Only One Doing Mobile Mail
The same day the beta invites started going out for Windows Live Mail Mobile,
Google launched Gmail Mobile. So far, Gmail Mobile is supporting relatively few cell phones and PDAs and only those in the U.S.. But wider coverage is coming soon, Google claims. And you can get
Gmail Mobile on your Blackberry, too. And speaking of Google, it's sounding like Microsoft's nemesis bested Microsoft in the contest for whose search engine would power Google search, going forward. As part of that deal,
Google reportedly will invest $1 billion in AOL, in exchange for a five percent stake.
microsoft - comments - 19.12.2005
Microsoft Mail Beta Signup
We think you're going to really like the clean new look and other features -- at least we hope so! We need your feedback to make sure we are doing this thing right.
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Microsoft's Web Mail Gets Overhaul
The Hotmail millions (Microsoft reports 200 million users) know and perhaps love could be replaced. For the last seven months, Microsoft has been beta testing a radically different Web mail client, one that makes Hotmail's largely standard HTML interface look like yesterday's news. Kahuna supports drag and drop, right-clicking, multi-select and, in general, a much more Outlook-like look and feel.
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New Web Mail: More Polished, Powerful
Microsoft and Yahoo are poised to make Web-based e-mail more powerful than ever with updates that bring a desktop-style interface to their respective Web mail offerings. We tested betas (currently invitation-only) of Windows Live Mail and Yahoo Mail, and also looked at an open-source newcomer called Zimbra. All three apps use an increasingly popular programming technique called Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to improve on standard Web mail and even Google's Gmail.
microsoft - comments - 27.11.2005
Windows Live Mail M6 is here
They are currently putting up the new login page at mail.live.com, but you can log in via hotmail.com as usual.
microsoft - comments - 16.5.2006
'You've Got Mail' -- and Ads, Courtesy of Microsoft
It was only a matter of time before advertising found its way onto the desktop.
Microsoft is releasing Active Search today, an automated function that scans users' e-mails and then displays potential search terms related to that e-mail, along with text-based paid search ads.
microsoft - comments - 5.6.2006
Windows Live Mail M9
As we were expected, Windows Live Mail was upgraded to M9 (Milestone 9) last night.
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Yahoo! Mail Notifier 1.0.0.12
A simple to use Firefox extension that can notify you when you have new mail.
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30GB Web Mail Into Beta testing
A new web mail service launched today promising to bring users an email inbox of 30gb.
30gigs.com started off with the idea of creating an "All in one" site for the webmaster and avid computer users. According to the sites "about us" page, combining personal file storage, GD2 signatures and anonymous email all in one service, which would be free.
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Windows Live Mail Beta Refreshed
Microsoft on Wednesday began rolling out Milestone 4 of its new Windows Live Mail beta, formerly known by the code-name Kahuna. The update adds support for Web browsers beyond IE6 and implements a number of new features such as spell checking and resizable window panes.
microsoft - comments - 1.12.2005
Microsoft tool 'snarfs' up unwanted e-mail
Microsoft Corp.'s research arm yesterday released a free tool to help users slog through e-mail messages in their inbox in the order of importance, according to one of the researchers who developed the software.
Created within Microsoft Research, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, or SNARF, is an application that uses the same database as a user's e-mail client to count the number of times users send and receive e-mails from people, said A.J. Brush, a researcher in the community technologies group at Microsoft Research.
microsoft - comments - 2.12.2005
Microsoft Works on Comcast E-Mail Problem
Microsoft said Friday that some people who use its Hotmail and MSN e-mail services are not receiving e-mail sent from Comcast accounts and other Internet service providers.
Brooke Richardson, a group product manager with Microsoft's MSN online division, said the problem appears to be due to an increase in e-mail volumes, which it is attributed in part to the Sober Internet worm.
microsoft - comments - 5.12.2005
Microsoft Sued Over Mobile E-Mail Access
Microsoft is facing a new lawsuit today from telecommunications provider Visto claiming that the software giant "...infringed upon multiple patents Visto holds regarding proprietary technology that provides enterprises and consumers with mobile access to their e-mail and other data."
microsoft - comments - 16.12.2005
E-Mail About Windows Live Messenger Really A Trojan
Helsinki-based F-Secure told users to ignore instant messages with the subject head "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA" that go on to claim that "Messenger 8 BETA has been leaked!"
microsoft - comments - 28.12.2005
Sneak into the Windows Live Mail Beta
Just before the end of 2005, a simple trick was discovered that turns your Hotmail into the Windows Live Mail Beta without the need of an official invitation. The "exploit", which allows almost everyone to actually test and use Microsoft's nextgen e-mail service, has been posted all over the web and has still not been fixed yet.
microsoft - comments - 5.1.2006
Microsoft Building New Free Mail Client
Internet Explorer isn't the only application to enjoy a resurgence in Windows Vista -- Microsoft is readying a new desktop e-mail client that will be integrated into Windows Live and eventually replace Outlook Express. Dubbed Windows Live Mail Desktop, the product is currently in beta testing.
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E-mail from Microsoft: NO VISTA ACTIVATION REQUIRED
Microsoft has written to many 'concerned' users, about the activation in Vista Build 5342.
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Google: Leave No E-Mail Behind
A new API lets programmers write tools that shuttle e-mail data from Microsoft Outlook to Google Apps.
Google has added another
weapon to its arsenal to help programmers move data from the productivity applications of Microsoft and others.
Launched Nov. 15,
the Google Apps Email Migration API is an application programming interface that lets software developers create tools that can move e-mail from any
data source to Google Apps' Premier, Education or Partner editions.
The new software opens up e-mail migration to the broadest
range of possibilities and builds on an e-mail migration tool Google launched June 25 that lets administrators move e-mail from their IMAP mail
systems to Google Apps.
winbeta.org - 16.11.2007
Windows Live Bug Opened Door to Scammers
Microsoft Corporation has
fixed a bug in its Windows
Live ID registration that let
users deceptively register a
false e-mail address. The
false e-mail address could
then be used as an ID for
Microsoft's Live Messenger
program, which could trick a
user into thinking they are
chatting with someone who is
not whom they appear to be.
Erik Duindam, a Web developer
in Leiderdorp, the
Netherlands, reported the
problem to Microsoft on
Monday. Microsoft acknowledged
it had fixed the bug but did
not have further information
on the flaw's impact.
It's unclear how long
the flaw may have existed or
how many accounts with
deceptive instant messenger
IDs could have been created.
If a user attempts to create a
Windows Live ID, Microsoft
sends a confirmation e-mail to
the e-mail address entered by
the user. Without
confirmation, Microsoft
includes a warning with future
messages sent by instant
message, which appear as:
fake@emailaddress (E-mail
Address Not Verified).
However, accounts
created over the weekend with
fake e-mail addresses were
still active as of Tuesday and
carried no such warning.
Microsoft should try to shut
down the fake accounts as soon
as possible but it could be
difficult, especially if
Microsoft was not aware of the
flaw and can't track the
spoofed accounts. An attacker
could use the flaw as part of
a social-engineering ploy,
where users are tricked into
doing something that puts
their machine at risk. Users
could be tricked into thinking
they are talking to someone
they trust.
neowin.net - 20.06.2007
Mail merge feature added to Google Apps
Just weeks after unveiling
offline capabilities to its
Google Apps collection of
services, the company Monday
added a
mail migration feature that
lets corporate users transfer
existing mail to the online
platform.
The mail
merge feature is available for
the Google Apps' Premier and
Education editions. Google has
developed a self-service
wizard that lets
administrators securely
transfer into their Google
Apps account e-mail from any
e-mail server that supports
IMAP.
The two
most-used corporate e-mail
servers -- Microsoft Exchange
and Lotus Notes -- support
IMAP interfaces.
Google officials said the
mail merge capabilities will
support Exchange 2003, but
that Notes is yet to be tested
with the software.
winbeta.org - 26.06.2007
Google Drops 'Gmail' Name in
Britain
Due to an ongoing trademark
dispute in the United Kingdom,
Google has changed the name of
its free Web mail service from
Gmail to "Google
Mail." The switch was made
after the company failed to
come to an agreement with
financial research company
Independent International
Investment Research...
betanews.com - 20.10.2005
Yahoo Mail to block fake eBay and PayPal e-mail
If you use Yahoo Mail you should be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal very soon.
Yahoo will be upgrading its system beginning on Thursday with technology--dubbed "DomainKeys"--designed to block phishing spam and
other fraudulent e-mails that look like they come from eBay and PayPal but don't. The system works by verifying the domain of the sender of the
e-mail, allowing ISPs to block messages they deem illegitimate.
The upgrade is expected to be accomplished globally over the next
several weeks.
winbeta.org - 04.10.2007
Fake Microsoft Patch E-Mail Lets Hackers Build Botnet
The Internet Storm Center is
warning that hackers are
spamming e-mail messages that
purport to be a Microsoft
security update. The phony
e-mail doesn't carry any
fixes. Actually, it contains
malicious code to infect
unwary users who open the
message and click on any links
or attachments.
"Microsoft would never
e-mail patches, so I don't
know why people still fall for
this but they do," said
Johannes Ullrich, chief
technology officer for the
Internet Storm Center, in an
interview. "It seems like
everybody got a copy of the
e-mail. It was spammed out to
a very large list. How many
people clicked on it, I really
don't know."
The
malicious code in the
so-called patch is a backdoor
Trojan that opens the infected
system so it can be remotely
manipulated by the hacker. It
basically turns the machine
into a bot, which can be added
to a growing botnet...
winbeta.org - 28.06.2007
Beware of fake Microsoft security alerts
With Microsoft's monthly
patch release expected on
Tuesday, scammers are sending
out fake security bulletins
that attempt to install
malicious software on
victim's computers.
The e-mail messages claim
to describe a "Cumulative
Security Update for Internet
Explorer" that fixes a
critical security flaw in the
browser. It comes with a link
entitled "Download this
update."
When users
click on this link, they are
taken to a server that
attempts to install malicious
software known as
Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Agent.
avk. This Trojan software then
attempts to reach out to other
computers on the Internet in
order to install more programs
on the victim's computer...
winbeta.org - 09.06.2007
Fix for free anti-virus generating fake traffic
The freeware version of anti-virus software AVG 8 was released with a feature called LinkScanner at the end of May that was found to create massive
amounts of fake traffic, enraging webmasters, and skewing site rankings...
betanews.com - 07.07.2008
Apple: Fake Memo Didn't Come from Internal Server
Apple attempted to squash the
confusion surrounding a fake
memo published on AOL blog
Engadget Wednesday, which
claimed both the iPhone and
Leopard were being delayed and
temporarily led to a major
drop in Apple stock. The
company says the memo was
not sent from its
servers...
betanews.com - 18.05.2007
Identity of 'Fake Steve Jobs' Revealed
The identity of Fake Steve
Jobs is a secret no more. The
author of the popular Web log
that for the past year has
taken a candid look at the
world of CEO blogs has finally
revealed himself...
betanews.com - 06.08.2007
New Microsoft E-Mail Client
Gets Ads
Microsoft is embedding
advertising in its new e-mail
client software known as
Windows Live Mail Desktop, the
company disclosed late Friday.
The feature, known as Active
Search, will display text
links based on a message's
content, much like Google does
with its Gmail service on the
Web...
betanews.com - 06.06.2006
Fake sites with Obama news infect users with malware
Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and
links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the official Obama website. Trend Micro has found binaries with file names like barack.exe
and baracknews.exe which belong to Waladec family of worms that spread more after New Year as spam greeting cards. Below is a glimpse of the fake
obama website Some of the malware found are: WORM_WALEDAC.KAX WORM_WALEDAC.AE WORM_WALEDAC.AG WORM_WALEDAC.AD WORM_WALEDAC.AL WORM_WALEDAC.AH
TROJ_AGENT.DOZZ TSPY_BANKER.BFE TROJ_DLOADER.XGZ BKDR_KRYPTIK.AB These malware are mostly hosted on domains that contain Obama-related key words.
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neowin.net - 21.01.2009
Chrome masks as Safari to fool Windows Live Mail
According to Google's Chrome Releases blog, Chrome-users no longer need to go out of their way to make Windows Live Mail/Hotmail work. In
addition to providing important security updates, Google's most recent version of Chrome--1.0.154.46--makes it easy for followers to use Windows
Live Mail. For some reason, Windows Live Mail does not work properly on Chrome, unless it thinks it is some other browser, such as Apple's Safari.
Previously, Chrome-users who had wanted to be able to use Windows Live Mail would have to switch the user-agent manually, but now the browser will
identify itself properly as "Chrome" for most normal sites but as "Safari" for URLs ending with mail.live.com.
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neowin.net - 01.02.2009
Google Asks Students About Campus E-Mail
Google is asking college
students to voice their
opinions on campus e-mail
services, likely aimed at
giving the company a better
understanding of how to
improve its suite of
communications services aimed
at colleges and universities...
betanews.com - 09.04.2007
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from
MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks.
Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph the connections between people. Thats why the
social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have
this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.
winbeta.org - 14.11.2007
Carbonite caught red-handed posting fake product reviews
It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those
fake reviews, we now have Carbonite - an online backup service provider setting a similar example. The Daily Background highlights the dirty
practices of yet another tech company posting positive reviews of their own products. Bruce, an annoyed customer who wanted to write reviews in
Amazon.com regarding his experiences with Carbonite, found out that the high level employees of carbonite gave positive product reviews disguised as
normal users.
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neowin.net - 29.01.2009
Google Tacks On 10 More Years To E-Mail Archiving Program
Aimed at businesses that need to retain and store e-mail, Google has added 10 more years to its e-mail archiving service, Google Message Discover.
"Regulations and guidelines like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure put pressure on IT organizations to ensure that e-mail is properly retained and
can be reliably located and preserved in the event of legal discovery," Google said in a company blog. "Coupled with the growing importance of
e-mail as a store of intellectual property, e-mail archiving has become both legally necessary and critical to the operation of your business."
According to a Google whitepaper, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure applies "to virtually all organizations, in all industries, including
private, public and non-profit organizations. In short, if an organization can have a civil lawsuit filed against it, then the FRCP should figure
prominently in that organization's data management strategy."
neowin.net - 09.10.2008
EU cracks down on fake blogger astroturfing
Nothing beats word of mouth for getting people to put their hand in their pockets. So it didn't take long for cheeky marketing departments to cotton
on to the power of blogs and pose as consumers praising their own particular widget to the skies to help lift their top line.
Sneaky, perhaps, but usually legal. Not for much longer, however, as covert commercial blogging - or flogging - will soon be banned by
Brussels.
Under laws due to come into force at the beginning of next year, but likely to be delayed until April for the UK,
companies posing as consumers on fake blogs, providing fake testimonies on consumer rating websites such as TripAdvisor, or writing fake book reviews
on Amazon risk criminal or civil liability.
winbeta.org - 04.11.2007
Auf Wiedersehen, Gmail - Google Loses Court Case in Germany
German courts have confirmed
that Google's fight for the
G-mail trademark has been
lost. 33-year old German
businessman Daniel Giersch has
won a case
against Google, meaning
that Google is not permitted
to use the "Gmail" name in
Germany. Giersch had
registered 'G-mail' in 2000,
four years before Google came
out with its web mail service
of the same name.
This is the second time
that Google has had to give up
the Gmail name - two years ago
Google handed over the rights
to the name in the UK. At that
time Google changed the name
to Google Mail, after its
run-in with research firm
Independent International
Investment Research (IIIR) -
which used the name G-mail to
refer to a part of its
financial analytics software.
Indeed Google is
having trouble holding its own
in Europe as a whole, in the
Gmail battle. Again Giersch is
at the center of it, as he
also won in Austria and claims
to own the name in Spain,
Portugal and Switzerland.
Meanwhile in Poland, Google's
Gmail adversary is "a polish
group of poets".
winbeta.org - 05.07.2007
Apple Denies Internal Source for Fake iPhone Memo
Apple officials have
offered no detailed
explanation regarding the
source of a memo sent to Apple
employees the morning of May
16 that falsely claimed that
there would be a delay in the
release of the company's
iPhone and the Mac OS X
Leopard operating
system.
Soon
after the purported internal
Apple e-mail was published on
the consumer electronics Web
site Engadget.com, Apple's
stock price fell from $108.83
to a low of $103.42. The stock
recovered by the end of the
day, and moved higher on May
17, but at one point nearly $4
billion of Apple's market
capitalization had evaporated.
Engadget quickly
posted an update to its story,
saying the e-mail was a hoax,
but still stating that it was
"an actual internal Apple
e-mail that went out to
thousands of Apple employees
earlier today."
However, Natalie Kerris,
spokesperson for Apple, based
in Cupertino, Calif.,
contradicted this, telling
eWEEK on May 17 that the
e-mail "did not come from
Apple." ..
winbeta.org - 18.05.2007
