Oh, boy, how one thing always leads to another, especially with AOL. Tonight a reader asked how to access the AOL Classic home page (the answer is you can’t, because AOL Classic is gone). Once that was sorted out (I told her to use http://netscape.aol.com instead – it’s ugly, but it’s basically the same thing), […]
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. […]
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 […]
The Mike Nieves case is taking strange twists and turns. Just to refresh your memory, Nieves is the 17 year old accused of recently hacking AOL. He’s charged with computer tampering, computer trespass, and criminal possession of computer material. Mike admits he hacked into Merlin (AOL’s CSR management system) to get his suspended account back […]
I’m learning this a little late, but according to a complaint filed by AOL in NY City, AOL was repeatedly hacked by 17 year old Mike Nieves between December 24, 2006 and April 7, 2007. According to AOL, he has: …committed offenses like computer tampering, computer trespass, and criminal possession of computer material. Among his […]
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