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IT support spam seems to be the new It scam

Posted on Wednesday, 30 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Lately, spam email from supposed IT support have been the most successful spam messages for beating all my various filters. Way to go, guys! Sort of like fake banking scams I don’t really get the dupes who actually provide this information. If someone from said institution contacts you about any of this. You’re account would be working in order for you to get it.

File this one under InterWeb | Now you say something

PSA for today: The online chatting of the Cthulhu

Posted on Friday, 25 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Don’t know where this came from, who made it or to what end. It’s just sort of something that found its way from H.P. Lovecraft’s dimension into ours.

File this one under Found while Trolling the Web | Tagged in | Now you say something

Political Action Video: Stand up for health insurance executives

Posted on Wednesday, 23 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Maybe laughter is the best medicine because when you can’t afford the doctor you’re too busy laughing to notice the agonizing pain.

Via MoveOn.org

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Peter Glickert’s hating not debating video

Posted on Tuesday, 22 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

The full story from McCaskill’s town hall poster altercation.

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Older versions of WordPress under attack

Posted on Tuesday, 22 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

To quote Lorelle: Update your WordPress blog before you continue reading this post. That’s how critical this issue is.

“Otto42 of OttoDestruct, a key WordPress developer and supporter, reports that there is an “attack” on older versions of WordPress right now. The number of sites hit by this is growing every hour. Protect your WordPress blog now: UPDATE NOW!!!”

I sort of have a habit of looking up subscribers to my blog. Thankfully there are not that many of them, so it’s pretty easy. When there’s a new one, I just google it. Two new ones were “OBSCURED EMAIL ADDRESS” and “OBSCURED EMAIL ADDRESS.” Googling these resulted in a slew of warnings on a hack exploit that exists in WordPress installs older than 2.8.4. which can allow nasty things like permalinks being changed to direct people elsewhere, as ArabCrunch points out.

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The Thames circa 2055 in The Age of Stupid

Posted on Monday, 21 September, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share

Review: The Age of Stupid Gets Smart on Enviropocalypse @ Wired

The stills put this on my to-see list.

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