Comments on: China Home to at Least HALF of Malicious Web Sites

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:34:48 +0000

well there are always work arounds i think…
these applications are becoming smarter day by day but spammers are usually smarter

By: grav

grav — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:24:58 +0000

You’re right!
I just tried and WordPress said my comment was too short.

By: Navin

Navin — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:50:46 +0000

cmon man….i frankly don’t think anyone could pretend to be a top commentator and spam!! coz over the months each one of us has developed a style of writing

for eg. if grav started praising some company’s product for no apparent reason, I’d kinda figure out tht it wasn’t really him…and I think wordpress has a built in spam filter

I myself have bumped into it on a couple of occasions when my comments have been too short for eg. try commenting “cheers”…it will be seen as spam!!

By: Darknet

Darknet — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:56:11 +0000

There is a username/password system.

But it’s pretty easy for me to tell if someone is not who they usually are, that’s why the spammers pretending to be on of the top commenter’s get deleted.

If you want an account let me know via the contact form, I’d rather control registration than open it.

By: grav

grav — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:15:00 +0000

TO DARKNET:

Talking about phishing
Is anybody else worried about how anyone can enter any username
for all you know, I’m a different person than the one in the post above. Is there any way to prevent this?

Could we possibly have a username and password system? I know its a major overhaul to the site, but just something I was wondering…

Just to test the above, I entered a different email…

By: grav

grav — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:10:24 +0000

@ Navin & Daniel

Another thing that is really funny and plays to human nature is that email that reads ” You have won the international lottery”

It asks you for you Social Security Number. You know its fake…
BUT…. don’t you always feel: “WHAT IF IT’S REAL!!!”

These scams are the same as social engineering. They play to the basic human desires and exploit them just as an experienced hacker would exploit a vunerable system. Once again, this proves the human element is one of the weakest… : (

By: Navin

Navin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:32:22 +0000

@ daniel its amusing tht Ur friend got phished even though he knew the site he was on was fake!! Generally people don’t bother to see the site address (the address bar) when they click on these links…tht’s the reason why most of dem end up giving out dere passwords to phishers

tht’s the reason tht web browsers now highlight safe sites in yellow (secured sites) so tht people atleast take notice of their address bar

whats sad is tht the people who are caught in raids on phishing sites are mostly skiddies who …in many cases….. host their sites on free webhosts…so the phishing site address reads something like yahoomaillogin(dot)freehostia(dot)com (just an example…believe me there are thousands with similar names)….and people do fall for this…sheesh!!

By: SpikyHead

SpikyHead — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:48:29 +0000

Everytime we investigate hacking attempts 90% of the time its chinese IP address.
Everytime we check the origin of phishing email… its chinese origin…
Everytime we check origin of spam emails…mostly its chinese origin too..

So no wonders if more than 50% of such sites are owned by chinese OR hosted on chinese web servers… see their is a bit of diff in both..

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:45:19 +0000

if this is news to anyone, then they obviously haven’t been WHOISing phishing sites. When a friend got phished a couple months ago i went poking and found that that site, as well as all the sites linked to in phishing emails in my own inbox, were hosted in china.

By: Navin

Navin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:19:32 +0000

@ zupakomputer

U sure tht’s the Chinese?? I thought only Saudi Arabia had tht sort of control over US economy!! Atleast tht’s what I came to undrstand after the US went after Afghanistan even though most of the terrorists involved in 9/11 were from Saudi arabia……what say??

@ razta, tht’s something I pray doesn’t happen first of all coz i strongly feel the US will attack Iran only to take over the oil reserves

Bush in 02 : Iraq surely has weapons of mass destruction…ATTACK!!
Bush in 03 : Iraq has, I think, weapons of mass destruction
Bush in 04 : Iraq has, it seems, weapons of mass destruction
Bush in 05 : Iraq has, i’ve been told, weapons of mass destruction
Bush in 06 : Iraq has, maybe, weapons of mass destruction
Bush in 06 : Iraq has No weapons of mass destruction, we have their oil…hehe

But seriously, I just feel tht if the US did attack, then it’d directly send in a few SR-71’s and F-22 Raptors and take out the Irani communication systems first…widout communications between the head of defence and the air launch facilities Iran would be crippled

then hopefully hacker’s frm Iran would team up and crack through the 9 layered (or so I’ve been told) firewall of the US defence and replace the entire site with an image of Bush in a bathing suit!!

What say??