Monthly Archives: August 2008

Suspicious File Distributed Through Seattle University School of Law’s Forum Website Determined to Contain Trojan Horse

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Several hours ago, we reported that the forum website run by Seattle University School of Law was exploited to send Internet users to a fake PornTube website hosted in Tampa, Florida, USA. The forum website found at … Continue reading

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Seattle University School of Law Forum Website Exploited to Send Internet Users to Fake Porn at HOT-PORN-XTUBE.COM

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Several forum websites run by American colleges and universities have been exploited lately. For example, we reported several days ago that the forum website run by East Tennessee State University‘s Quillen College of Medicine was exploited to … Continue reading

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How Stupid and Uneducated Some WordPress Spammers Can Be – Thank You For Your Choosing MacHouse in Proving Your Stupidity

Perhaps because of the way we make news out of their stupidity, we sometimes hear directly from spammers. For example, let’s see a spam post that entered the moderation queue at MacHouse blog two days ago. The spammer wrote How … Continue reading

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Clicksor Says System Was Hit by Massive DDoS Attack

  TOKYO (MacHouse) – Clicksor, a Canadian advertising network company based in Richmond Hill (a Toronto suburb), Ontario, says that they suffered a denial-of-service (DDos) attack at the beginning of the month. A news letter sent by the company about … Continue reading

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Sick of Paris Hilton Spam Messages?

TOKYO (MacHouse) – The organized cyber criminal group behind a series of circulating celebrity spam messages for the past several days show no sign of quitting misrepresenting the famous hotel chain heiress. In the past 30 hours or so, we’ve … Continue reading

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