I must have been half asleep when I clicked the link in this email, but Gmail hadn’t caught it yet even though it’s an obvious phishing attempt, so be warned if you get an email warning of “urgent maintenance” of your account. Then again, it’s probably a bad site to […]
Ireland
Phishing in Irish
Well, this is a surprise. One of my .ie email addresses got a very targeted phishing email. It was so specific that it was actually written in Irish! It wasn’t directed at me, but at a list owner address at linux.ie. I wonder if the spammers know how many Irish […]
Ireland , Web
Anatomy of an AIB Phishing Email
I’m well used to getting phishing emails for American or internationally known banks but this morning an email supposedly from AIB made it past Gmail’s spam filters. AIB posted an alert a few days ago to watch out for fraudulent emails, but this one appears to be different. I’m forwarding […]
When-in-Ireland
Around Ireland in 80 links on July 18th 2007
Anthony found Pixar’s new short cartoon, Lifted. It’s quite fun! I’m amazed that Drogheda Library wouldn’t let a student charge his laptop. “Doing a ryanair on it” alright! Kathy Foley’s festival of mud and horrors tries to understand the fuss over Oxegen. I stay well clear of RTE these days […]