I’ve got an Anti-AOL reader who recently used their AOL email to whistleblow in such a way that their life is now possibly endangered. Given that this person got to this point over not knowing how to send anonymous email anonymously, I thought a quick tutorial on how to do it right, especially if you […]
That’s right, hackers, this is a no-strings-attached free gift from AOL to you, their nifty hackers – hack into as many free AOL accounts as you want and some of them will be yours to keep, free-of-charge, FOREVER. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – get’m NOW before other hackers lift all the free AOL accounts […]
Updated 7-1-09. Since I wrote this post it’s risen to the #1 slots for the keyword searches mentioned below, so to save you time, if you’re here for the phone number to report a hacked AOL or AIM account, it’s 1-800-307-7969. Tonight I typed “report hacked aol email” into Google and got, among other irrelevant […]
Watch out, AOL users. If you see this in your inbox – like I did tonight – then you’ve got Phish. Symptoms of Phish are as follows: You have an irrepressible urge to click on real-looking links to AOL You think this phisher’s email is so convincing You can’t understand why the fine folks at […]
Do you want to make a lot of money quick? Set up a phishing site (most of them can be made overnight with easy-to-use, affordable tools) then just send AOLers email asking them to “visit AOL” to update their accounts. That’s all. You’ll probably be rich in a week. That’s right, I’m suggesting you steal. […]
As mentioned in Why You Want to Uninstall AIM Now, AIM can be very unsafe, especially in light of the latest weakness found by Core Security researchers. It’s best to uninstall it and use something safer. Messengers that I like are Pidgin (formerly known as GAIM), Trillian, and the latest version of MSN Messenger, which […]
Any hacker in the world can use your AIM messenger to do a lot more than send you messages. According to ZDNet blog writer Ryan Nariane: The attack scenario works without the target clicking on a link and only requires that the AIM user is logged on and accepting incoming messages.
There are days when so much bad news floats around about AOL that I want to write about cheerful things instead…like sunsets. How about an article on sunsets? This is one of those days. For instance, someone needs to hand AOL the Dumbass Award of 2007 for dropping Kaspersky’s Active Virus Shield from their lineup […]
Sunbelt, the people who make CounterSpy and other software security products, reported on their blog yesterday that at least 450 free AOL sites are infected with the Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec, more commonly known as the zlob-fake-codec. How this works is you click a search engine result that takes you to an infected AOL account (user.aol.com is shown […]
From Zone-H, an IT news and information site: Zone-H and AOL’s Puerto Rican version of AOL.com was hacked and seriously defaced today in three separate DDoS attacks. I’ll post more details as they become available. Update: Helpful thread about “cwings” is here. Apparently he’s been hacking big websites for quite some time. Another website he […]
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