Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud. Show all posts

Feb 29, 2008

Big Mac

PayPal warns against using Apple's Safari:

Safari doesn't make PayPal's list of recommended browsers because it doesn't have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal's chief information security officer.
A perfectly valid reasoning. A couple of Mac users cannot seem to understand the precaution suggested.

In other news, Apple customer service representatives are in denial too.
I called Apple and spoke with a couple of their reps. […] The reps were incredulous about the existence of malware specifically targeting Macs. They looked up articles about it while we were on the phone — they wouldn't believe me until they looked it up for themselves.

I have a couple of friends who use primarily use Mac OSX and other Apple products because of the sense of superiority that comes with it. Most of them are oblivious of the dangers. The sense of invincibility is simply a liability.

Feb 13, 2008

Have you seen her?

If you ask me I have seen her countless times. I don't know her name and maybe she doesn't know she's very popular. If you don't know what I'm talking about read up on domaining and click fraud.

Domaining is the business of acquiring domains for no actual use besides generating revenue through pay per click advertisements. Generic domains and domains that has been deleted but still retains substantial traffic are commonly abused. Revenues from pay per click advertising is seen as an incentive for click fraud.

I performed a DNS lookup on a particular website I wanted to visit recently but is now used for pay per click advertising. I don't know if its sniped, kited or it's not really the URL of SABAGsecurity.

$ dig @8.15.231.113 sabagsecurity.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> @8.15.231.113 sabagsecurity.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22644
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sabagsecurity.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
sabagsecurity.com. 3600 IN A 8.15.231.100

;; Query time: 260 msec
;; SERVER: 8.15.231.113#53(8.15.231.113)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 13 16:46:16 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 51

Besides hotelcasadeplaya.net, 0-360.net, 00products.com and sabagsecurity.com her sweet smile is featured on another 11,526 domains on that IP alone, disregarding the wildcard DNS records.