Just arrived: an email announcing the “the launching of a State Vaccination H1N1 Program.”
It commands: “you need to create your personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile on the Centers for Disease Control website.” Purporting to come from CDC in Atlanta <Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <h1n1@cdcdelivery.gov>, mine actually came from Peru.
It’s phishing. Trash it [...]
Category Archives: Internet/Computing
H1N1 Phishing
December 1, 2009 – 9:03 pm
How to Fix Intermittent Errors
March 6, 2008 – 6:13 am
Today my four-year-old Mac G4 laptop began acting its age.
Groups of pixels jittered chaotically in horizontal regiments, sometimes covering the screen. Then, without anodyne application, the problem would disappear. And just as unpredictably, reappear. Further investigation revealed that these video measles increased or decreased as a function of manual pressure exerted on [...]
