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WARNING: CIMB Bank Email Phishing

As usual I use Gmail as the main email account, but some things I left it to use my Live Hotmail account which I normally checked once a while. Today I checked my email and noticed I have received a LOT of email from my bank, which I use CIMB Bank in Malaysia. From a glance of all those "Bank" emails, I should have known this is a phishing attempt. Let's try to see one of the email I have received.

For most users, looking at the email from confirm@cimbclicks.com.my maybe you won't notice that email was actually NOT from the bank, and may simply click on the link provided straight away. Then, without realizing the site was actually a phishing site that looked exactly like the bank's interface, normal users may have compromised their username and password to hackers.

I have tested all the link in the emails, while most of the links has been put down or will result in 404 error, it is better to NOT click on the link at all.

Ok, here some other examples of the phishing emails I have received. Next time, be careful when clicking any links in the emails.

   
Click here to download:
WARNING_CIMB_Bank_Email_Phishi.zip (91 KB)

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Top 10 Malware-Hosting Countries

"The USA is still the dirty man of the web world - hosting more dangerous infected websites that any other country,"
- Senior Technology Consultant at Sophos

IT security and data protection firm Sophos has revealed details of the top ten countries hosting malware on the web, passing on malware infections to innocent computer users.

Source via [http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2010/02/malware-hosting-countries.html]

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Your Friend's Ex-Girlfriend is Spreading a Virus on Facebook

Again, as usual Facebook always been the place to spread viruses and worms. By using "attractive" words, they succesfully tricked most people into clicking into their link - that eventually will redirected to the site that will install virus on your computer.

This time, they use the "Ex-Girlfriend Cheated" trick and post it along with a picture of a chick half-nude - a very temping post for most people, perhaps men would like to click it more than women.

Whenever you see this kind of link or post, DO NOT click on it! I repeat DO NOT click.

Thanks to Mashable for the news [http://mashable.com/2010/01/29/facebook-revenge-worm/]

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International Data Privacy Day

January 28th is the day when we celebrate the Data Privacy. Even though this day is just a symbolic name to represent an important matter like data privacy, Microsoft and Google made some publications about it.

Google: http://www.google.com/privacy
Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/privacy/dpd/default.aspx

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Awesome Personal 3D Avatar

Looking to create an awesome looking of your own 3D avatar? Avatara can do this with few simple steps. Makeuseof gives a detail guide to create your 3D avatar via [http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/build-your-own-awesome-personal-3d-avatar-avatara/]

Or straight go test-drive the app at [http://avatara.com]

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Twitter Apps on Seeking New Owner

Just recently I received an email from Dan Whitehouse, the developer for TweetWave is letting go all of his applications due to lack of manpower to manage it. Some of his work kinda great innovation also, like the popular Twi.tter.Me app which helps twitter users gain followers by just featuring their profile within the app.

As in his email, this is the list of applications that seeking "future" owner:

  1. http://twee.tw/ave
  2. http://twi.tter.me
  3. http://tweepemailscript.com
  4. http://tweepbar.com
  5. http://twitmoan.com
  6. http://highrollertweeps.com
  7. http://myblocr.com Dan changed his mind on this, haha!
Each of these apps does have a great opportunities if you can market it quite well, and perhaps can return you a lot of profits later soon. If you interested on these apps, or know anyone that might interested, please do contact Dan on twitter. He sure very happy to assist you on the purchase.

Dan, hope this helps you a bit. Cheers!

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The Apple iPad

Apple's finally unveiled the iPad. It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it's running a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby.

Engadget got the first hands-on [http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/apple-ipad-first-hands-on/]

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Twitter Users in Asia

According to Sycomos latest report on Twitter, Asian countries constitutes about 7.74% of the Twitter unique users worldwide. Indonesia topped with 2.34% of unique users, followed by Japan (1.47) and India (0.97). On a global perspective, more than half of Twitter unique users (56.59%) are located in the US and followed by UK (8.09), Brazil (6.73), Canada (4.36) and Australia (2.63). This is based on analysis of active 13 million unique users, between Oct 16 2009 and Dec 16 2009.

Read more on the source article

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MacView: So far the best Apple Tablet concept

An ultralight personal computer which will display everything you need during the day. Wherever you are, you have your favourite books and text files with you. You will most certainly discover the magic of reading on this specially designed screen, which doesn’t cause eye-strain even in the darkest of environments.
Wherever you are, you will always have access to your resources in the WWW. You will be able to open movie files and listen to music. Designed for those on the move. Hundreds of functions make life easier in today’s contemporary cities. All this in the small-form factor MacView, which has a thickness of just 7mm.

Source via [http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/01/27/tablet-poland-introducing-macview/]

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Compare Google Suggest Results Visually

Google Suggest is one of the most interesting and useful features of Google. As you type words in the Google search box, it will try to guess what you are looking for and offer suggestions in real-time.

Try the phrase “facebook is” in the search box and you’ll know what people generally think of Facebook.

Source via [http://www.labnol.org/internet/compare-google-suggest-results/12544/]

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