A new internet threat has been identified by TovenSolutions that could lead to identity theft. It's called phishing, or otherwise known as spoofing.
Step 1 of this scam is to create a bot. In the threat that we identified a bot reads threw eBay listings and gathers some public information about your account. Public information includes items you listed and your email address.
Step 2 of the scam involves the bot sending out an email to you using the email address it found on your eBay home page. The email renders to look identical to an official "user has sent you a question" email from eBay.
Step 3 of the scam presents you a link to supposedly your eBay account in the generated email. Since there is a link in the official email as well, this usually arouses no suspicion. The link in the email however does not take you to an official eBay server instead it takes you to a spoof server that has a similar domain name or URL. The page your taken to looks identical to the official eBay login page complete with false Vera sign logo. The unsuspecting user enters in their login information and the false page now has stolen your eBay login. The page then submits your information to the real eBay logon page, which sends you an your way, and your none the wiser.
What you can do
My suggestion is to download Internet Explorer 7 which has a built in phishing filter which is live and always up to date. Using Internet Explorer 7 you can report sites that look suspicious as well.
Another method is to look for a VeriSign logo on the page. Click on the logo and look for "Identity Verified" in the page, also make sure it as a genuine VeriSign seal it should start with "https://seal.verisign.com", with nothing in front of it. If the URL starts with anything but "https://seal.verisign.com" it is a fake site and should be closed out immediately.
One final technique for identifying phishing sites is to closely examine the URL. Look for URLs like "http://sfsdfsf.com:8080/http:my.ebay.com", two http's or a valid URL inside of another URL is a sure sign of a spoof.
And with a small program, it can be easily installed and browsed. I think the next step is a way to get a higher capacity drive into the system (in other words, creating a partition compatible with it using similar software on another SATA drive).
At any rate, my main interest right now is getting my old XBox saves onto the new system. Unfortunatly, the method they have now has some major problems (for example, the need for certain hardware and the inability to transfer certain saves that are "locked"). I suppose this MIGHT support the XBox 1 hard disk as well? That would make things easier if I gut my XBox for the hard disk within.
Of course in the end MS just needs to provide a software solution to this problem. It is well within their capability to do so. As I described earlier, MS screwed up by making the new card ports on the 360 incompatible with the original (especially since there are in fact 64 MB memory cards for the original box), but they can make up for that now. Just patch both the 360 and the original XBox with a new option called "link to XBox/XBox 360" where it will attempt to find the opposing system somewhere on the local network (just like both find other systems in system link mode in various games), and once this occurs, the user simply OK's the link on both systems and goes to whatever system they want to send files to and moves/copies all the data they want over (move will be available for ALL data, copy only for data that is not "data locked"). Bam, problem solved and data transferred. I'm really surprised they haven't already done this. Did they fire everyone who has access to what's needed to patch the original XBox at some point?
Wii-exclusive game from the maker of Killer 7. Looks just as stylish... Video available (for download), click the link now! (or whenever the site starts working again, it seems to be having bandwidth issues...)
You know how every time a company does something right they later change their minds? No? Neither do I, but in this case Blizzard apparently thought of this great idea. I'm not sure how this will actually affect those who play the game, but what they are doing is basically giving all the faction specific classes to the other side, so there is no longer any real difference between each side.
Nice one Blizzard. Caved into idiots complaining eh? This is basically like taking a game like Starcraft and just giving every side all the other side's units and abilities, in other words taking a game with unique and original groups you pick from to battle in a way that really makes Starcraft stand out from everything that came before and turn it into a single group with different skins.
I dunno, there may be more to this, maybe Blizzard was just sick of actually balancing the differences between the two groups but this is just lazy. Not the sort of thing I would think Blizzard would do.
Quote:"The Battle of Hoth is a huge blast of spectacle and action to kick-start the movie, and it was an absolute joy to bring this vast battle to life in LEGO," says Jonathan Smith, director at TT Games Publishing. "The AT-ATs had a massive impact on me when I first saw the film as a child, and their existing LEGO toy models - as well as the AT-STs and of course the snowspeeder - are just so cool. We had a lot of fun creating a Hoth battlefield for two players to zoom around on simultaneously, and we're really proud of the storytelling sequences too."
Having only fought this battle in videogames approximately five thousand times before, I say it's high time for it to finally get the attention it deserves...
