Ramblings of an old Doc

 

Royal Wedding Name Scam:

Sophos uncovered an interesting royal wedding-themed game on social networks that could lead you to revealing important information about yourself.

Then, if you post your Royal Wedding Invitation name, guess what you told them? Well, here’s a hint from Yahoo!:

Those are all typical answers to security questions used to verify your identity online for Webmail accounts and other services.

Best tip? Don’t play. And for those “hints” to retrieve your password? LIE! Make up deliberately wrong answers.

H.R.H.’s Wedding Dress:

Fascinating stuff for the fashion minded. Soooo… what do they do? Why, Google/bing/AskMe the info, right? Google and bing do a good job protecting you from SEO attacks, but no one’s perfect.

F-Secure says be really careful about that. Remember the Japanese Earthquake and the scam sites? A growing type of attack is the “SEO Attack”: A type of attack that involves poisoning a website's listing in a search engine's search results, in order to redirect visitors to a malicious website.

F-Secure already uncovered a scareware attack site when doing a Google Image search for the query "royal wedding coverage." Scareware sites attempt to rip you off by convincing you to buy and install a rogue antivirus program on your computer. 

If you have to have info, go to a trusted site: A good place to start is the official royal wedding site.

Sources: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002149.html

             http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/04/28/why-you-shouldnt-reveal-your-royal-wedding-guest-name/

 


Comments
on Apr 30, 2011

Its such a come on people are going to do it just for kicks. That's what they're counting on, right. Oh yeah.

on May 02, 2011

Clever!  And it will catch mostly the newbies.  The ones that will take the longest to realize they have been hacked.