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    Mmmm.... Spam.

    in Security

    Posted · Edited by NUSHOR

    A while back I started using the Social Engineering Toolkit and thought it was a great concept, But now I see that it may just be more than a good tool. Check this out: 57% of adults open and respond to spam mail.

    According to a recent study by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) spammers on both sides of the Atlantic are being kept happy by users' email behaviour. The MAAWG warning seems necessary as there are clearly more than enough users who click on spam email because it somehow looks interesting, in spite of all the danger signs.

    The MAAWG study has, for the first time, been extended to European countries and includes the previous years US-only results for context. According to the group's findings, more than half (57%) of surveyed adults have responded to spam in such a way that it supports the perpetrators of the spam. This includes opening attachments to an email, forwarding an email or clicking on links. Almost half of this group, 46%, nearly a quarter of the population, said they did so deliberately, to "unsubscribe", out of curiosity, or out an interest in the products on offer.

    Looking beyond past misdemeanours, the MAAWG also surveyed current patterns of how users handle spam emails. 61% of users said they do not open spam email, 44% move it to their junk folder and 39% press the "spam" button. Overall, 11% of those surveyed say they have clicked on a link in spam.

    Source: http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item...ell-963843.html

    what is best mini laptop on the market today?

    in Questions

    Posted

    i am currently using an Asus eee pc 900HD with an upgraded 2GB of ram plus a intel wifilink 5100 wireless n card, which needed an extra antenna in the lcd (easy to do). The only downside to this little machine is its pile of crap CPU, celeron m dothan @ 990 when its overclocked, which is great for somethings but not for others.

    However I would reccomend the Asus eee PC 1000HE, which has an intel atom chip. My buddy has got one and I wish i would have bought something with the same CPU because overall, anything is better than a celeron m in todays market, and the Atom meets mobile needs. Both of us run Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic), XP, and Windows 7 on our little hacktops. If you do plan to run Windows 7 however, get an eee pc 1000 or above because they have the intel i945 chipset vs. my pile of i915 graphics, aka no aero support for me (no hardware scheduler) :P

    OH BTW he also gets in the vicinity of 6 hours on his battery with his 1000, but on my 900 i only get somwhere around 3.

    good phone on at&t?

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    I Have to stick with AT&T because i'm currently on a family plan. I think the LG Xenon might be the way for me to go here sadly. Maybe in a year or so I will get a dataplan, but as of now its just too expensive and I have other bills to pay. eff the economy.

    good phone on at&t?

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    yes but you see to get a smart phone with anything good on it, it requires a $30 a month dataplan or higher. As for the HTC and iPhone, they require the $30 dollar or higher dataplan, and the HTC is the only phone with wifi and a touchscreen/keyboard, plus its 200 bucks. A little much for me to pay, considering im still in highschool. I am considering a dataplan, although i would end up paying 50 dollars a month because of my unlimited txting, and thats 600 dollars a year.

    However I just saw the quickfire, which seems to be pretty decent, but im scared because of its cheap price.

    thanks for all your replys btw.

    Unhackable Netbooks

    in Security

    Posted

    just schools trying to do anything "unhackable" in general is a joke. My school got taken down by virut last year, well a more evolved version of it, but still. All one would have to do to "hack" their netbook is take out the hard drive, make a backup image of it, install grub, make it boot your favorite linux installer and vuala, you have "hacked" your netbook.

    good phone on at&t?

    in Everything Else

    Posted

    with less than a month till my upgrade, I started thinking about what phone to get that meets my geeky needs and also doesn't require a data plan. The only one I have come across as of now is the LG Xenon, which isn't all that hackable. does anybody have any suggestions?

    FreeNAS file directory?

    in Hacks & Mods

    Posted

    just keep track of what you put on there and be organized with your files :P i have 11 people on my freenas server. sure there are a few duplicates, but because we are organized with our data we don't have to deal with very much of that.

    but for what you wanted to do: enable the webserver service, set your root directory, enable directory listing and enable the registered users only function. you should be good to go.

    Bad hard drive, how to recover?

    in Questions

    Posted

    This is very true, when i first heard it i never beleived it but it works. My 40GB HD was fried with my resume on it which was important so i can have all the dates and stuff, i threw it in the freezer overnight and it worked perfect the next day

    I have had to use that method multiple times, mostly on the the deathstar err deskstar HDDs. From what I recall it has worked on every HDD I have had to recover, which is quite a list when you work in corporate computer repair :D

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