Make sure your computer is not using rogue DNS servers…before july 9
According to Mrs. Carl's boss, who is very up on these things (because she has to be),
this one is for real.
If your computer is not using a rogue DNS service, you will be done with this less than a minute after you click the link. If you are using a rogue DNS service, it will take you much longer, but it beats the alternative of not being able to surf the internet after July 9.
Labels: computer hackers, computer problems, computer virus
Any Firefox experts
Is anyone out there an expert in Firefox? If so, could you please drop me an email. My screen has a Windows Media bar in the middle (that doesnot work anyway) and I cannot get rid of it. It is making posting very difficult (see screen cap below).
Thanks.
Labels: computer problems
Saudi hackers claim to publish 400,000 Israelis' credit card details online; UPDATE: Some non-Israelis too
Saudi hackers claim to have posted the personal credit information of 400,000 Israelis online. While there is some element of truth to the boast,
the number is exaggerated.
They called on surfers to use the details in order to purchase goods online. "It will be so fun to see 400,000 Israelis stand in line outside banks and offices of credit card companies to complain that their cards had been stolen. To see banks shred 400,000 cards and reissue them. To see that Israeli cards are not accepted around the world, like the Nigerian cards," the hackers wrote.
The hackers, who called the cyber attack a "gift to the world for the new year," broke into the "ONE" sports website and announced they had leaked the information. They also attached a link to a webpage from which the data could be downloaded.
The Bank of Israel has announced that the reported Saudi theft of Israeli credit card numbers is under investigation.
An Israeli student claimed that the files released by the Saudi hackers contained only 18,000 unique entries, not 400,000 as the hackers claimed. The files allegedly contained credit card information, including security numbers which allow credit card holders to purchase goods online, as well as phone numbers and addresses.
Ofer Schwartz, a mathematics and computer science major at the Technion, found that while the files do contain 400,000 entries, many of them are repeated several times.
Most of the Israelis whose names appeared in the leaked files confirmed they contained their actual addresses and phone numbers, but the majority said the credit card details were false. A few said the credit card details were accurate but that their cards had already expired.
The list includes many Israeli celebrities, including athletes and cultural figures. A number of them told Ynet the leaked credit card numbers were not theirs.
The file was eventually removed from the Internet. "ONE" said its computer experts neutralized the cyber attack "within minutes."
That might explain why I cannot find the list anywhere to see if I am on it (I have never bought anything from ONE). The website on which the list was posted is
here. The original post from the hacker is
here. The key lines are:
57 57 Israeli Data Leak File:
58 58 http://www.multiupload.com/OM1S9YLZKV
59 59(30 MB compressed, 210 MB uncompressed)
But if you follow
that link at line 58, it doesn't go anywhere.
An Israeli was able to dissect the list - his findings in Hebrew are
here.
In any event, it doesn't sound like there are going to be 400,000 Israelis lined up to cancel their credit cards anytime soon.
UPDATE 10:33 AMI hadn't had time to read that last link before, but if you're abroad, the last two items on the list may interest you.
One of the files is something called Judaism.txt and includes "details of 65 credit card holders, including personal and credit card details (all current). Most of these people are US residents and many have explicitly Jewish names. They do not include any Israeli residents. It may refer to people who made orders from
this website (my speculation - not in the original).
The other is called tbldonate.htm and includes 1,616 names and credit card details of people who donated to https://www.schneersoncenter.org/ between March 7 and November 18, 2011.
Labels: computer problems, credit ratings, our friends the Saudis
Turkish hackers launch DNS attack on Israeli websites
In what analysts think may be a dress rehearsal for a much larger attack, Turkish hackers brought down some 350 websites in Israel with
DNS attacks.
Visitors to some of the sites were diverted to a page declaring it was “World Hackers Day."
At least seven high-profile websites were hijacked, including those of The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone.
Hackers calling themselves the "TurkGuvenligi group" calimd the cyber-attack. "TurkGuvenligi translates as "Turkish security."
"The hack represents a 10%-15% spike compared to the average number of daily hacks of Israeli websites," Shai Blitzblau, head of Maglan-Computer Warfare and Network Intelligence Labs, explained.
The operation was very sophisticated and probably entailed a significant financial investment, Blitzblau added.
The Israeli inquiry into the hack discovered a clear link to "TurkGuvenligi," as well as several failed attempts to hack other websites.
Only a 10-15% increase from the ordinary volume? Wow.
Labels: computer problems, DNS attacks, Turkish obsession with Israel
Sporadic posting
For those of you who have noticed that posting has been sporadic (although you won't see this for another hour, this is the fourth post I have written in the last half hour, even though each of them claims to be an hour apart), I am having BOTH car problems and computer problems. After spending the entire morning on the phone dealing with my laptop's inability to connect to the new router, I am now out at the mechanic figuring out why all the lights in our car failed on the way home from a Bar Mitzva in Beit Shemesh last night.
I'm doing the best I can today.... Please keep coming back to the site.
Labels: car problems, computer problems, laptops
According to Mrs. Carl's boss, who is very up on these things (because she has to be), this one is for real.
