wot i been readin
This morning when trying to search on Google, every link was considered dangerous. One example is a search to find the Japanese translation of “I love you”. Every link gave me a malware warning.
Obviously, this must have been some kind of GoogleGlitch(TM) as evidenced by getting an error page when I clicked on the “Safe Browsing diagnostic page” link. This turned out to be a temporary glitch: when I tried out google a few minutes later, I had no problems.
Received an obviously bogus email purporting to be from the Federal Reserve Bank with with subject line Attention - Read Carefully! If you receive this email, DO NOT CLICK on any of the links in this email unless you know what you’re doing! If you click and don’t have scripting turned off in your browser you will be subject to a drive-by install of the Hijack.Tray trojan and things could get messy.
Subject: Attention - Read Carefully!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=windows-1250
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
Important:
You’re getting this letter in connection with new directives issued by U.S. Treasury Department. The directives concern U.S. Federal Wire online payments.
On On January 1, 2009 a large-scaled phishing attack started and has been still lasting. A great number of banks and credit unions is affected by this attack and quantity of illegal wire transfers has reached an extremely high level.
U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in common worked out a complex of immediate actions for the highest possible reduction of fraudulent operations. We regret to inform you that definite restrictions will be applied to all Federal Wire transfers from January 6 till January 16.
Here you can get more detailed information regarding the affected banks and U.S. Treasury Department restrictions:
http://fedwire.usafedsecurities.net/issue_256486/
http://e-securenetworks.com/banking/391175845/
Federal Reserve Bank System Administration