Kalimat al-Mutafalsif

Saturday I got a letter that I thought I’d share. It’s really interesting to me, since I’ve dealt a lot with phishing emails, and this real letter set does many of the things that both phisers, and unfortunately legitimate companies, do. If companies would stop doing these things, Phishing would get harder! This is gonna be a long post, please bear with me. Without further ado, I give you: The Care Registration Scam (which later turned out to be legit).

Well, in case you can’t guess from the title, it’s been exactly a year since I started this blog. To be more specific, it was November 20th of last year that I registered the domain. This post also (totally not planned, I swear) happens to be my 100th. Again, to be more specific it’s my 100th page… pages include things such as my warhammer picture pages and the others you find under “Pages” on the right. So, this’ll be a fun past, five days in the making, about all kinds of things dealing with the past year. ((Published a second time, I apologize))

Well, here’s a bunch of random ideas strung together in an update on my life so far this year.

Well, it finally hit the papers today (ok, yesterday, this has been a draft for a day). A phishing email went out, and instead of asking you to login to a bad site, it changed the legit phone number to a false one. They wanted you to call this fake number tor eactivate your account. Now, I’ve known that phishing is not just limited to email, that’s why I define it as “Scamming other people out of their credentials”. Hopefully, this’ll make mainstream media rethink their definition of phishing, and stop giving the false pretense of “ignore email, and you’re safe”. No one is safe, ever from frauds.

So, I (think I) coined a new phrase today. Passive Identity Theft. It’s not illegal, as you’re not actually stealing someone’s identity. However, you are posing as them by not saying you are them. Confused? I’ll explain.

So, some of my friends, in the past, have asked me to teach them how to hack. I normally agree, depending on who it is, to give them the tools. Teach them UNIX, show them how to find stuff online, etc. What I can’t teach, however, is the mentality. I had some fun last night, and I figured I’d share it with you, give you a feel for how a hacker thinks.

First, I have to tell you a little bit about myself.

Well, I’ve been quite busy the past week or two, hence the silence. I know ya’ll missed me .

First off, I’ve picked up a job doing the website for a grad student in the Fine Arts School here, specifically a portfolio website, as he’s a photographer. This’ll be interesting, and I trust I can put out something of high enough caliber for what he needs.

Well, some of you have heard me rant about Social Networks, Facebook being an example, already, but here’s a new one.

Well, I’m loving my phishing class. They encourage hands on experiments, and I’ve already got the opportunity to carry out something that should lead to publication! (More to come on that after I get approval, etc). However, the main reason I like the class is I get to tthink like a bad guy. Something I do a lot, just never carry out due to my preference for white hat hacking, as opposed to black hat.

Well then, now that I’m awake and (somewhat) functioning, lemme break down this semester. In this post, I gave a break down of the courses I’m taking this semester. That changed on Monday. But I digress…