Orkut SPAM friend requests

"My Name",I want to be your friend on orkut. How about it? "Sender Name"

I have been getting so many friends request for last one week on ORKUT. Frineds request format is also same for all the request i.e.

I see similar discussion on Google forum also.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/orkut/thread?tid=4ab507b26cb4c9ca&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/orkut/thread?tid=00e8874b95af249e&hl=en

So be conscious before accepting any such friends request.

Fw: Free Laptop from Ericsson- plz dont ignore

Hi All,

FYI, this is a hoax mail. Please refer the following links.

http://www.ericsson.com/ca/hoax.shtml
http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/contact/faq.shtml#4

Regards

Hi all,

Please find the PROMO below.Try your Luck :-)

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"YAARI" - BIG time SPAM

This is as per there... Terms and Conditions.

> *"By registering for Yaari and agreeing to the Terms of Use, you authorize
> Yaari to send an email notification to all the contacts listed in the
> address book of the email address you provide during registration. "*


So as soon as somebody registered to YAARI, everyone in the primary email address book account will be sent a mail.

For more information:
http://profy.com/2007/10/31/yaari-social-network-or-international-scam/

Security Design from Ancient India

For past sometime, I have been reading something or other about our Vedic culture and also the scientific verification of the advanced facts mentioned there. Below mentioned articles might give more information in this direction:
Blog Entry: http://think-smile.blogspot.com/2009/03/scientific-verification-of-vedic.html
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4Q2xx7BTc



Now having said that, I have been thinking that be it Cyber Security or physical security, there must be some basic rule or security design which might be mentioned in any of our ancient books. Probably we are putting are effort in the wrong directions and that is why internet is still very insecure.

One example could be, information and knowledge is for sharing purpose like OWASP and GNU are working. Now take the case of entertainment industry. They are trying to invent technology that can stop piracy but if we think it from design perspective "Knowledge/Fun is to share, not to patent and sell" like Vedas, Ramayana and Mahabharata. Any geek would agree that there can't be any piracy protection technology, which can't be cracked. So in a way we are putting our effort in wrong direction.

Similarly, what is the right direction/design for security? If anyone like to share any information or anyone whom they thing could give me some direction, that would be a great help.

Google's Security Challenge.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Google-Challenges-Hackers-to-Native-Client-Security-Contest/
http://code.google.com/contests/nativeclient-security/faq.html
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/

Google Challenges Hackers to Native Client Security Contest
Google wants hackers to take their best shot at cracking Native Client security. Google is offering prizes for the top five vulnerabilities hackers can find. The contest ends May 5. Google is hosting a contest to get its hands on security flaws affecting its Native Client technology.
Native Client is an open-source research technology for running x86 native code in Web applications. As an incentive, Google is offering five cash prizes, the largest of which is $8,192. Second place is $4,096, third is $2,048 and both the fourth and fifth place prizes are $1,024. All amounts are in U.S. dollars.
The contest will end just before midnight Pacific Time on May 5.

(IN) Secure Magazine by Help Net Securiy

Subscribe to this magazine and enhance your Security knowledge.

http://www.net-security.org/insecuremag.php

Fw: ICICI DUPLICATE SITE

Dear All Please pay attention to the following

ICICI bank's net banking has a duplicate site as details given below.
Please be careful while using ICICI net banking.

ICICI Bank Duplicate site-be careful