Full Circle Magazine: Issue 31

The 31st issue of everybody’s favorite Ubuntu magazine is out! With 9.10 Karmic Koala just about a month old and the next release, Lucid Lynx, already on the horizon and in the news, take a look at what else is going on.This month, we’ve got:- Command and Conquer. - How-To: Program in Python – Part 5, The Perfect Server – Part 1, and Universe of Sound. - My Story – The Conversion. - My Opinion –

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New Moon or New Scam?

There is a lot of buzz surrounding the “New Moon” movie. In fact, there are thousands of websites trying to lure people into watching the movie for free, from the comfort of your home. Let’s mention that the movie is still in theatres Among those sites, there are those almost too goog to be true portals, where the movie is only a click away:Read morehttp://blogs.paretologic.com/malwarediaries/

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MSN Phishing and Alliance and Leicester botnet

I wrote a while back (July, August and then again in September, about the Alliance and Leicester botnet, that served to scam the unwitting out of their banking information. Then of course, there was the MSN phishing from the Sun Network range, and later, spilled onto a botnet when myself and Jonathan, kept getting them shut down.Now it seems, both the Alliance and Leicester, and the MSN phishing

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Facebook botnet: Is your computer helping it?

I've just received several more Facebook e-mails that point to URL's hosted on a botnet, and both steal your information, load an iFrame to an exploit, and finally, offer you an "update tool", that is the well known Zbot infection.Sadly, Outlook 2007 isn't letting my Outlook Export application work properly, so I've had to grab the IP's and such manually (well, via hpObserver ;)).hpObserver

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msbitsoftware.com + veramigos.com + Conduit = Facebook Phish!

Jonathan sent me an e-mail earlier, refering a domain involved in phishing. This particular one however, contains several interesting aspects.Most notably, it not only asks for your Facebook credentials, it also leads to what claims to be a legit software developer, and this "legit" developer, is offering a Conduit toolbar, claiming it to be a "Facebook toolbar". msbitsoftware.com is an Israel

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Interesting phishing scam: Marius wants your help

I've received two of these so far, both pointing to two different domains of course, and find them rather intruiging given it's the first time I've seen this method used.The e-mails start off pretty typical of the 419'ers, but then proceed with a link to ask for a donation - and so far, there's no additional infection involved that I can see;E-mail 1:Hello,My name is Marius and I am a student at

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If ya want my money, 'an' ya think I'm gullible, c'mon Saphie scam me now!

Okay, so I completely ruined what used to be a great Rod Stewart song - but it's been worth it. I was alerted by my friend Dee Hughes over at Freeware Home, of a rogue domain one of her visitors came across during a Google search for Outlook Express that led via the Sponsored results (surprise surprise) to expressdownloadz.com (see left).She asked if I could dig up anything on this domain as

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