If you received an email such as this recently:

Dear PayPal Member,

We recently have determined that different computers have logged onto
your PayPal account, and multiple password failures were present before
the logins. We now need you to re-confirm your account information to us.
If this is not completed by December 07, 2008, we will be forced to suspend
your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes.
We thank you for your cooperation in this manner. To confirm your Account
records click on the following link:

http://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-submit&dispatch=588

Well, by now you probably presume I’m freaking nuts & or dangerous, or an idiot; possibly all three. Well, thats fine. I will now go on to defending hacking of Hadron Collider. It won’t be a long post, but, hopefully just amusing. Who knows you may just change your views once you get done reading.

Well, I saw this title in one of our analytics &I have not had the pleasure of writing about computer security related topics for awhile. So, I think its time for one. This question came directly from a major search engine & some how this person landed on my blog. I will be coving ‘weird connections to TCP/IP ports’, while, this spans all operating systems that have some sort of connection to other computers over any distance(excluding Firewire, USB, parallel ports.) What you will need to know is first some basic information on TCP packet and IP(extremely basic nothing to indepth about headers as it will go beyond the scope of the article). Secondly, how to check up on what is happening with some cool, built in commands everyone should know that owns a computer. Finally, we will figure out if anything fishy is happening on the local computer in regards to worms, trojens etc. by an examination of the ports that are showing as opened and/or listening.

Okay so I think the tinfoil hats have been put on again and the conspiracy and corporate theorists are going nuts. What on gods green earth has people thinking that cuil is going to the google killer. I mean come on are you serious? after one day you can honestly tell me that cuil will take out google. Where is the evidence for this idiotic theory? Well let me give you my educated guess. I DONT HAVE ONE.

WHY?

So today I received a letter from a person identifying themselves as the I.R.S. after reading through this email I was kind of worried. I was not worried about the I.R.S. at all but more for the safety of other people, in whom this fraudulent site can really hurt. so I have decided to post on ways to not get your identity and bank account information stolen.

first and foremost here is the email in which i received: