Web White Noise

For no good reason here is a giant Awesome smiley. It’s huge, massive, big, giant.

Simon Hackett, Managing Director of Internode describes, in the most accurate way I’ve seen, how we the internet user are about to have our wallets raped horribly. (Business, Private users, it applies to us all)

While the title of my post is harsh, the sentiment is about right. The issue in Australia is price for service, it’s simple, yet stupid politicians from both parties are to blind to see the forest for the Telstra monopoly idea (FTTN – Fibre to the Node). Reality is it’s to expensive now, anything done needs to drive the Price For Speed (PFS) rate down.

If your a guy, stop watching Tania’s boobs and pay attention to what is being said.

Over the Memorial Day weekend in the United States, a Denial of Service (DoS) attack was conducted against Revision3. After some investigation they have discovered that the vast majority of the SYN packets being flooded towards them were sourcing from Airistdirect, specifically it’s child company MediaDefender.

You can find details on the Revision3 Blog, specifically the post titled “Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3“.

So what makes MediaDefender think it can get away with committing a crime, specifically one that can be considered a terrorist attack?

A few months back I was looking at a blog called Scarlet Words. The blog is written by an Aussie 20 something young lady. On her blog she had A Clever Advertisement that is produced by Ikea. I have to say I must be crazy cause, I feel sad for the lamp. Discarded on the curb, stuck sitting in the cold rain at night, looking at the ground all depressed.

Cleaver ad… worked for me.

Where can I get the Old Lamp Ikea? Cause I want to give one a home.

These guys don’t give up do they.

New phrase:
inurl:expressmediroad

They are trying to get you to visit expressmediroad.com, not a good idea to go there by the way. As usual they will be trying to sell you fake pills, usually sugar pills.

Spammers Abusing Google’s “Im Feeling Lucky”

Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has started a website called NoCleanFeed.com, the aim of the site is to oppose ISP content filtering that is being proposed by the Australian Federal government.

No Clean Feed

Someone is now targeting Google Adwords users in an attempt to gain access to their accounts. I Received the following email today:

Dear Google AdWords Customer,



We were unable to process your payment.

Your ads will be suspended soon unless we can process your payment.

To prevent your ads from being suspended, please update your payment information.



Please sign in

to your account at http://adwords.google.com/select/login,

and update your payment information.



This message was sent from a notification-only email address that does

not accept incoming email. Please do not reply to this message.

Just a word to the wise it’s old fashioned phishing using a subdomain when you click on the URL in the message. When you lick the link it takes you to:
http://www.adwords.google.com.aoplk.cn/select/Login

The above URL presents a page that looks like the Google Adwords login. So watch out for it webmasters cause they are just trying to own your account.

Did you know that spam had a birthday. 30 years ago today ( 5th May 1978 ), the first spam email was sent.

So here is the Monty Python skit that apparently Spam gets it’s name from: